Rodrigo Canales, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

Rodrigo Canales, Ph.D., seeks to understand how individuals purposefully enact organizational and institutional change, particularly how they use their backgrounds, professional status and organizational positions to change institutions.

His work builds on the different traditions of institutional theory and contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that allow institutions to operate and change.

Dr. Canales teaches the core MBA course on innovation at Yale School of Management, sits on the steering committee of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and advises several startups in Mexico that seek to improve the financing environment for small firms.