Elizabeth Long Lingo

Elizabeth Long Lingo is Director of Vanderbilt’s Creative Campus Initiative and the Curb Programs in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership.  She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management.  Elizabeth completed her Ph.D. in the joint program in Organizational Behavior and Sociology at Harvard University and Harvard Business School.

Elizabeth is a creativity and innovation scholar who explores how novel projects and ventures are imagined, negotiated, and brought to fruition. She is particularly interested in how leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents negotiate across disciplines and organizations as they forge transformative and non-routine outcomes. Elizabeth has studied creativity and innovation in the commercial music industry, the Nashville creative scene, and in the performing arts field.

Recent publications include: “Creative Campus: Time for a “C” Change” with Steven Tepper in The Chronicle of Higher Education (2010), “Nexus Work: Brokerage on Creative Projects” with Siobhan O’Mahony in Administrative Science Quarterly (2010); “The Creative Foil” in Qualitative Organizational Research (2009); and 2008 National Performing Arts Convention: Assessing the Field’s Capacity for Collective Action (2009).

Elizabeth has consulted to Fortune 500 companies on issues of trust, risk taking, speaking up and customer loyalty, and to the nonprofit and for-profit performing arts sectors on innovation and collective action. Elizabeth was a graduate fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School in 2003-2004. She holds a master’s degree in sociology from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.