Robert K. Kazanjian is Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, where he has received six Teaching Excellence awards. Prior to this, Rob was a faculty member at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he continues to teach in Executive Education programs. He was Visiting Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

His current research work falls into two areas:
1) the implementation of strategy and the management of change in large, diversified firms. His interests are capability creation and exploitation, innovation processes, and broad-scale organizational transformations; and
2) organizational issues associated with growth in firms at various stages of development.

Rob has authored a number of articles in Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, and the Columbia Journal of World Business. He is the co-author, with Jay R. Galbraith, of Strategy Implementation: Structure, Systems and Process. Rob is a member of the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Business Venturing and is also an active member of the Strategic Management Society and of the Academy of Management.

Rob has consulted and done executive education work in the areas of strategy, technology, and innovation and strategic change with firms such as General Electric, General Motors, The Home Depot, Singapore Airlines, IBM, Acer, Westinghouse, Abbott Labs, Exxon, Norwest Inc., Lockheed-Martin, Honeywell, and Siemens North America.