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Email:

nroberts@nps.edu; drnancyroberts@gmail.com
Nancy
 
Roberts

Professor Emerita

Expertise:

Design Thinking; Grand Strategy; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Wicked Problems; Social Network Analysis; Change and Transformation; Power and Politics

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

鈥irector of DA-51福利 Design Program (2010-2015)
鈥o-Founder and Co-Director, CORE Lab, Department of Defense Analysis, School of Operational and Information Sciences, 51福利 (2006-2010)
鈥rofessor, Department of Defense Analysis, 51福利 (2005-2015)
鈥rofessor of Strategic Management, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, 51福利, (1990-2005 and joint appointment 2005-2015)
鈥rofessor of National Security Affairs (joint appointment), Department of National Security, Graduate School of International Studies (2001-2004)
鈥isiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1987)
鈥ssociate Professor of Organization Behavior, Department of Administrative Sciences, 51福利, (1985-1989)
鈥ssistant Professor, Department of Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (1983-1985).

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
鈥uperior Civil Service Award, Department of the Navy, 2 December 2015.
鈥esearch Recognition Award, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, 51福利, 2003
鈥reider Naschold Award for Best Paper, International Public Management Network Conference 2000, Sidney, Australia.
鈥harles Levine Best Paper Award, Public Sector Division, Academy of Management, 1989

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs:
鈥oberts, N.C. 2023. Design Strategy: Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory. Cambridge: MIT Press.
鈥rquilla, J. and Roberts, N.C. 2017. The Design for Warfare. Monterey, CA: DoD Information
Operations Center for Research at the 51福利.
鈥oberts, N.C. Ed. 2016. Strategic Design for SOCPAC 2030. Monterey, CA: Naval Postgraduate
School.
鈥erg-Knutsen, E. and Roberts, N.C. (Eds.) 2015. Strategic Design for NORSOF 2025. Monterey, CA:
51福利.
鈥oberts, N.C. (Ed.). 2007. The Age of Direct Citizen Participation. New York: ME. Sharpe.
鈥oberts, N.C. (Ed.). 2002. Transformative Power of Dialogue. London: Elsevier Press.
鈥oberts, N.C. and King, P.J. 1996. Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy
Entrepreneurship and Innovation. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
鈥homas, K.W. and Roberts, N.C. Eds. 1988. Troubled Waters: A Sourcebook of Cases in
Management and Organization. Monterey, CA: 51福利.

Selected Journal Articles, Chapters:
鈥rquilla, J. and Roberts, N.C. 2020. 鈥淧ost-COVID Grand Strategy,鈥 The National Interest, No 169, Sept-Oct, pp. 63-69.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2017. 鈥淪OF as Designers.鈥 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Special Operations
Forces. G. H酶jstrup Christensen (Ed). Copenhagen: Royal Danish Defence College, pp 120-140.
鈥oberts, N.C. and Everton, S.F. 2016. 鈥淢onitoring and Disrupting Dark Networks: A Bias
Toward the Center and What It Costs Us.鈥 Middle East Review of Public Administration, 2(1): 1-18; also published in Eradicating Terrorism from the Middle East: Policy and Administrative Approaches. A. R. Dawoody (Ed.). Heidelberg: Springer.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2015. 鈥淓ncontrado O Espacp Do Problema.鈥 Cidade Solidaria, No. 33, pp. 40-45.
鈥oberts, N.C. and Longley, C. 2013. 鈥淎gainst All Odds: Bottom-Up Entrepreneurship and
Innovation in the Department of Defense.鈥 S. P. Osborne & L. Brown (eds.). Handbook of Innovation in Public Sector Services. Eheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 176-192.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2012. 鈥淪panning Bleeding Boundaries Redoux.鈥 Revised and reprinted in R.
Durant (ed.). Debating Public Administration and Public Policy.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2011. 鈥淏eyond Smokestacks and Silos: Open-Source, Web-Enabled Coordination
in Organizations and Networks?鈥 Public Administration Review, Sept.-Oct.: 677-693.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2011. 鈥淭racking and Disrupting Dark Networks: Challenges of Data Collection
and Analysis.鈥 Information Systems Frontiers, 13(1): 5-19.
鈥oberts, N.C. and Everton, S. 2011. 鈥淪trategies for Combating Dark Networks.鈥 Journal of Social Structure 12(2):1-32.
鈥hen, H., Denning, D., and Roberts, N.C. 2011. 鈥淒ark Web Forum Portal 2.5: Evolution and Expansion.鈥 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2010. 鈥淲eb-based, Open-source Platforms for Collaboration.鈥 In J. Svara and J.
Denhardt, eds. The Connected Community: Local Governments as Partners in Citizen Engagement and Community Building. Phoenix: Alliance for Innovation.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2010. 鈥淓ntrepreneurship in Peace Operations.鈥 Journal of Civil Society, 6(01):1-21.
鈥ulei Zhang, Shuo Zeng, Chun-Neng Huang, Li Fan, Ximing Yu, Yan Dang, Catherine Larson, Dorothy Denning, Nancy Roberts, Hsinchun Chen. 2010. 鈥淒eveloping a Dark Web Collection and Infrastructure for Computational and Social Sciences鈥. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
鈥oberts, N.C. 2010. 鈥淪panning 'Bleeding' Boundaries: Humanitarianism, NGOs, and the Civilian-Military Nexus in the Post-Cold War Era.鈥 Public Administration Review, 70(2):212-222.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE:

鈥o-Editor, Research in Public Management Series, Information Age Publisher (2001-2008)

鈥ssociate Editor, Public Administration Review (2006-2009)

鈥ember of Editorial Boards: The American Review of Public  Administration; Public Management Review; International Public Management Journal

鈥 International Public Management Review; Program Manager, Security Building in Post-Conflict Environments, 51福利 (2001-2003)

鈥 Division Chair, Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management (1996-1997)

鈥rogram Chair, Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management, (1994-1995).