Susan E. Lynch

Susan Lynch is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration at HBS where she teaches the first year course in strategy. She completed a doctorate in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School where she studied the imapct of intra-organizational networks on the success of organizational change efforts. She teaches courses on strategy and strategy implementation to MBAs and executives. She is curently an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, France.

Professor Lynch's research lies at the intersection of strategy implementation and organizational change, with a particular emphasis on the role of intraorganizational networks. She investigates managers' ability to shape the social networks of employees and influence the implementation of strategic initiatives. Her more recent work considers how networks shape individual and organizational identity and affect the success of chosen strategies.

Prior to commencing her Ph.D., Professor Lynch spent over 7 years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York and Sydney, consulting to multinational companies on issues of corporate and business unit strategy and organizational change. Today, she continues her involvement with McKinsey, providing faculty support for McKinsey's Mini-MBA program.