| Samuel B. Bacharach | |
| Fields: | Organizational behavior |
| Workplaces: | Cornell University |
Samuel B. Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor in the Department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.[1] He is the head of Cornell University’s New York City-based Institute for Workplace Studies. He is the co-founder of the Bacharach Leadership Group, an organization that focuses on helping organizations develop leaders, and the co-founder of Pragmatic Leadership, a mobile simulation platform that trains leaders in a modular approach.
Bacharach's leadership books include: Get Them on Your Side, Keep Them on Your Side, The Agenda Mover and Transforming the Clunky Organization.
Bacharach writes a regular column for Inc. Magazine[2] that focuses on the pragmatic skills of leadership and is a frequent speaker at Inc. conferences and events.
Among the organizations trained in his "Pragmatic Leadership" approach are: Computer Sciences Corporation, PepsiAmericas, March of Dimes, Walmart, Citigroup, International Monetary Fund, Mellon Financial, Starbucks, BASF, BMC Software, Boeing, InterContinental Hotels Group, Chubb, Nintendo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Devon Energy, TeleTech, and Gap Inc.[3]
Bacharach received a BS in economics from NYU and an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He joined Cornell University in 1974.[1]