Monica C. Higgins

Monica C. Higgins joined the Harvard faculty in 1995 and is the Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership at the Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where her research and teaching focus on the areas of leadership development and organizational change. Prior to joining HGSE, she spent eleven years as a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School in the Organizational Behavior Unit. Higgins’s teaching has focused on the areas of leadership and organizational behavior, teams, entrepreneurship, and strategic human resources management. She is studying the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems. In addition, she has a study under way that examines entrepreneurship in education. Higgins currently holds an appointment as a consultant to the U.S. Secretary of Education.