Tuck Executive Education -- Ella L. Bell

Tuck School of Business

Dartmouth College

Ella L. Bell

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Associate Professor of Business Administration

"A leader sets the tone for the culture. Yes, strategy is important. But strategy is what you do. Culture is what you live. We need leadership that rises to the occasion — we need compassionate, wise leaders. Companies today need employees who have the courage, the faith, the vision, and the drive to make a difference. But they have to feel valued. They have to feel appreciated. A compassionate, wise leader understands that."

Education

BA, Mills College of Education, 1971; MA, Columbia University, 1973; PhD, Case Western Reserve University, 1987. At Tuck since 2000.

Areas of Expertise

Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior.

Consulting/ Executive Education

Professor Bell has taught executive education for several years and served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and public institutions. Representative clients include Salomon Smith Barney, Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Meridian Bank, General Foods, The Southern New England Telephone Company, The New York Public Library, United Way Services, Union County Public Schools, and Loyola College. She also appeared on CNN'S "Democracy in America '96" series as an expert on race relations in the workplace.

Awards

Outstanding Young Woman of the Year, Greater Cleveland Urban League, 1981; American Sociological Minority Fellowship, American Sociological Association, 1983-86; Outstanding Educator Award, Coalition of a Hundred Black Women, 1989; Bunting Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, 1993-94; McGregor Award for Best Paper, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2001.

Publications

Professor Bell's research has focused on the career and life histories of professional African-American and European-American women. She is an expert on organizational change and the management of race, gender, and class in organizational life. She has published widely in management journals and she has authored several book chapters. Along with her colleague, Dr. Stella M. Nkomo, she wrote the book Our Separate Ways, Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity (Harvard Business School Press, 2001). Her work has been reported in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Charlotte Business Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Working Women, BusinessWeek, Black Enterprise, and Essence.

Background

In addition to her work at Tuck, Professor Bell has been an associate professor at the Belk College of Business Administration, University of North Carolina and and an assistant professor at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has also served on the faculties at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts.


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