Education

BS, Pennsylvania State University, 1968; MSBA, Bucknell University, 1975; PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1977. At Tuck since 1983.

Areas of Expertise

Business Policy and Strategy and Organizational Behavior.

Current Research Topics

Organization design, strategy implementation, organizational culture, and creating high performing organizations.

Consulting/ Executive Education

Professor Joyce has extensive experience teaching executives and consulting for organizations in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. His broad client base includes firms from the high technology, telecommunications, government, and financial services sectors. He has served as the principal consultant in reorganizations of portions of General Electric, Allied-Signal, Upjohn, 3M, ING, Aetna, Citibank, and government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency.

Professor Joyce served as a consultant to General Electric on the Work-Out process, the widely celebrated applied change project. In this role, he designed and implemented the Work-Out process within GE Aerospace, and was responsible for interventions that transformed major aspects of the strategies, structures, and systems in this large global organization. He also worked with General Motors on the GoFast! project which superceded Work-Out as the largest change initiative in business history.

Publications

Professor Joyce's newest book is What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, coauthored with Nitin Nohria and Bruce Roberson (HarperBusiness, 2003). He is the author of several other books, including Megachange (Free Press, 1999), and numerous articles dealing with strategy implementation, organizational design, and cultural change. His articles have appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organizational Climate and Culture. He serves on the editorial board of Organizational Dynamics.

Background

Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, Professor Joyce was on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was director of doctoral programs in management. He has been a visitng scholar at University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University Center for Organizational Research. He has been appointed to the position of professor of management by the Ministry of Education of Japan, and he teaches regularly in Japan and in other locations abroad.