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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership Development, Nonprofit Management & Social Enterprise, Organizational Behavior

Degrees

PhD and MS, Boston College, Carroll School of Management
MBA & MEd, University of Michigan
BA, Earlham College

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Lavine, M.(Forthcoming) From Knowledge to Action: Social Movement Insights for a New Vision of the Firm Timothy Fort editor, Corporate Governance and the Vision of the Firm, Springer Publications
• Lavine, M. & Roussin, C.(2012) From Idea to Action: Promoting Responsible Management Education Through a Semester-Long Academic Integrity Learning Project. Journal of Management Education
• Lavine, M. (2011). Positive Deviance: A Metaphor and Method for Learning from the Uncommon. In Cameron, K. & Spreitzer, G. (eds.) Handbook on Positive Organizational Scholarship, Oxford University Press
• Lavine, M. (2010) From Scholarly Dialogue to Social Movement: Considerations and Implications for Peace through Commerce. Journal of Business Ethics
• Cameron, K. and Lavine M. (2006). Making the Impossible Possible, Leading Extraordinary Performance: The Rocky Flats Story. Berett-Koehler Publishers San Francisco, CA

Additional Information

BACKGROUND

Lavine consults to companies and nonprofit organizations on issues of change management, leadership development, organizational learning, and social responsibility. He has also served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations. Lavine has extensive experience leading nonprofit educational programs and social ventures. He has worked throughout the U.S. and Latin America and founded an award-winning leadership development initiative serving young adults from Northern Ireland. Lavine has taught management courses at the undergraduate or graduate level at Boston College, Boston University and the University of Michigan. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in the dynamics of social change. I explore how ideas give rise to social movements and how social movement actors frame messages to attract and retain adherents. I also examine positive deviance as a mechanism that enables social innovation. Additionally, I am interested the relationship between organizational practices and individual meaning-making at work. I consider how the social responsibility practices of organizations influence employee engagement. I also study leadership development and the dynamics of collaborative leadership as well methods and practices to improve management education.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Positive Organizational Scholarship Community of Scholars; occasional reviewer for: Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry, International Public Management Journal, MOC & SIM divisions of the Academy of Management; independent consultant to companies and nonprofit organizations.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2010-11 Betty Diener Graduate Teaching Award, College of Management, UMass Boston
• 2008-09 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College
• 2008 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, MOC Division
• 2006 Research support recipient, Center for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College
• 2003 Global Citizenship/Community Service Award & Innovation Award, Dean’s Council, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

COURSES TAUGHT

Management 303: Managing Organizations, Management 650: Organizational Analysis & Skills, Management 697: Nonprofit Management, Executive Education: City of Boston