Biography of David Ulrich

His teaching and research addresses the question: how to create an organization that adds value to employees, customers, and investors. He studies how organizations change fast, build capabilities, learn, remove boundaries, and leverage human resource activities. He has helped generate multiple award winning national data bases on organizations that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies.

He has published over 90 articles and book chapters. His books include: "Organizational Capability: Competing from the Inside/Out" (with Dale Lake), "The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure" (with Ron Ashkenas, Steve Kerr, Todd Jick), "Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results", "Tomorrow's (HR) Management" (with Gerry Lake and Mike Losey), "Learning Capability: Generating Ideas with Impact" (with Arthur Yeung, Mary Ann Von Glinow, Steve Nason), "Results Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line" (with Norm Smallwood and Jack Zenger), "HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance" (with Brian Becker and Mark Huselid) and "GE Workout" (with Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas).

He was the Editor of "Human Resource Management Journal" (1990-1999), serves on the editorial board of four other Journals, sits on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources and co-founder of the Michigan Human Resource Partnership.