Email: borjeo(at)u.washington.edu
Creativity and innovation in the global market provide the core of competitive advantage, but natural creativity comes from reviving the child in us. To gain this advantage in the bureaucracy requires the simultaneous existence of parallel organizations - one for execution and control, and one for creativity and innovation.
Featured Research
Isolates and Deviants in the United States and Japan: Productive Nonconformists or Costly Troublemakers?
Borje Saxberg
- Professor Emeritus of Management
Education
- PhD University of Illinois (1958)
- PhD University of Illinois (1953)
- BS Oregon State University (1952)
- BA Swedish School of Business Administration, Finland (1950)
Current Research
- Management of creativity and innovation in a bureaucracy
Positions Held
- At the University of Washington since 1957
- Visiting professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, 1970-1971
- Visiting associate professor at Syracuse University, 1961
Consulting
- Rolls-Royce Limited and Short Brothers (UK), development training for managers of engineers and scientists
- Boeing, executive development and education
Honors and Awards
- Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, 1995
- PhD Students Professor Exemplar, 1963
- Ford Foundation Faculty Study Fellowship, 1960-1961
Academic Service
- Founding Director Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (PEI), 1990-1995
- Chairman of the Department of Management and Organization, 1972-1976, & 1989-1993
- Chairman of UW Faculty Senate, 1981-1982
- Secretary-treasurer of the Western Academy of Management, 1975-1984
- Visiting professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, 1970-1971
- Associate Dean of graduate programs, 1967-1970