New faces: A warm welcome to Christian Bason and Dan Kärreman!

01/15/2025

Christian Bason is our very first Leader in Residence!

 

From 1 November 2024, Christian Bason is Leader in Residence at the CBS Leadership Centre. Our Leaders in Residence program is targeted high profile guests that work on a co-created project with members of CBS Leadership Centre.

 

Christian will be a key player in our efforts on Collaborative Leadership. His research interest is how leaders can navigate complex societal challenges to develop impactful businesses. During his residency, he will explore the need for leaders to rethink their roles and positions, moving from a focus on hierarchical control to fostering collaboration and innovation inside and across organizations and within wider ecosystems.

 

Christian has a diverse background in innovation, strategic design and leadership and is the author of numerous books in those fields. He is co-founder of Transition Collective and the former CEO of the Danish Design Center. He holds an M.Sc. in political science from Aarhus University and a Ph.D. from CBS.

Dan Kärreman in a new role

 

From 2025, Proessor Dan Kärreman will be the key driver of the The Leadership Paper Series which is an initiative dedicated to stimulate cross departmental discussions on leadership research that is in the making.

 

Dan is a leading researcher in the field of critical management studies and is also known for his research on knowledge work, organizational control, organization culture and leadership in organizations. He developed the metaphor of the leader as a bully for the book “Metaphors we lead by” and has also published extensively on critical perspectives on management and leadership, including a frequently cited critique of transformative leadership (Alvesson & Kärreman, 2016).

 

Among others, Dan teaches leadership of change and digital management in various programs at CBS.

 

 

 

 

 

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