Tiona W. Zuzul

Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders and organizations learn and adapt in response to environmental shifts and periods of discontinuous change. Her in-depth, longitudinal field research shows that leaders’ identity and framing – how they see, interpret, and convey firm strategy – shape strategic renewal in settings from high-tech start-ups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

Professor Zuzul's research has been published in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Strategic Management Journal. She was awarded the Strategic Management Society's inaugural Research Methods Prize. Her dissertation was a finalist for best dissertation awards by the Entrepreneurship and the Strategy divisions at the Academy of Management, and by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (EGOS).  She serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. 

Prior to joining HBS, Professor Zuzul was an Assistant Professor at the London Business School, and at the University of Washington, where she received the MBA Professor of the Quarter and PhD Faculty Mentor awards.