Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Holds a patent for her software simulation on global collaboration and is a member of Rakuten’s Advisory Board.

Tsedal received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in Work, Technology and Organizations. Tsedal was named as one of the Top Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50, honored as a Stanford Distinguished Alumnus Scholar and was a Stanford University School of Engineering Lieberman award recipient for excellence in teaching and research.

Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of the globalization efforts of one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world, Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neeley disrupts prevailing beliefs by revealing the power of treating language and culture separately. Tsedal Neeley is an award-winning professor in the Organization Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School.

Prior to her academic career, Professor Neeley spent ten years working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various areas including strategy for global customer experience, helping to shape her work which focuses on the effects of globalization on organizations and their employees.

Tsedal answers the question of how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies.