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CV: Dennis Jaffe
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Jan. 30th—“Governance in Family Business,”
Family Business Forum, University of the Pacific, Stockton
Feb. 26th—“Governance Structures for Multi-Generational Family Wealth,”
Institute of Private Investors, San Francisco
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
Ph.D., sociology, 1975, Yale University.
M. Phil., sociology, 1973, Yale University
MA, administrative sciences (organizational behavior), 1970, Yale University.
BA, philosophy, 1967, Yale University.
Current Publications
Minding the Store:How Multi-Generation Families Manage Family Dynamics While They Exercise Control Over their Businesses, submitted for publication.Money,Wealth and Identity, from A. Kanner, ed. The Consumer Society, APA, in press.Your Money and Your Life: Assessing your relationship to your wealth, in press.
Significant Publications
Getting Your Organization To Change. C. Scott, co-author. Menlo Park, CA: Crisp Pubs. 1999. A blueprint for the steps to implementing major transformational change in an organization, this is a set of tools and practices for change that is used as the change methodology for one of the big five consulting firms.Take This Work and Love It! C. Scott, co-author. Simon and Schuster, 1988. Revised edition, Menlo Park, CA: Crisp Pubs, 1997. A set of tools for exploring the meaning and purpose in your work, and for making changes in how you work, and in how you approach your work, to make a difference in yourself and your organization.Working With Family Businesses: A Guide for Professionals. D. Bork, S. Lane, L. Dashew, and G. Heisler, co-authors. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. A guide for advisors—accountants, lawyers, investment managers, bankers, financial planners, and consultants, who work with the complex dynamics of family businesses and family investments. Shows how to assess the impact of families, how to deal with conflict and create effective governance structures to separate family from business.
Important Conference Presentations
I have been on around 100 Saybrook dissertation committees in the past 20 years.
My focus has been on systems and organizational change, family dynamics, spirituality in business, personal growth and development, especially career, social issues.
Research Interests
N/A
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
I am an action researcher. I particularly focus on survey, interview, historial and case study research.
Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research | |
| Field Experiments | |
| Randomized Controlled Clinical | |
| Quasi-experimental methods | |
| Correlational Methods |
Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research | |
| Survey Research | |
| Interview Research | |
| Observational Research | |
| Epidemiological Research | |
| Ethnography | |
| Focus Groups | |
| Self-Observational Methods | |
| Narrative Methods | |
| Feminist Methods | |
| Content Analysis | |
| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) | |
| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) | |
| Archival Research | |
| Case History Methods | |
| Appreciative Inquiry | |
| Multiple Case Depth Research | |
| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design | |
| Longitudinal research | |
| Cross-sectional research |
Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research | |
| Hermeneutics | |
| Grounded Theory | |
| Phenomenology | |
| Heuristic Research |
Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) | |
| Confidence intervals | |
| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) | |
| Analysis of Covariance | |
| Regression (including multiple regression) | |
| Discriminant Function Analysis | |
| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis | |
| Causal Modeling | |
| Cluster Analysis | |
| Survival Analysis | |
| Nonparametrics | |
| Bayesian Analysis | |
| Meta-analysis and effect sizes | |
| Factor Analysis | |
| Time series analysis | |
| Multidimensional scaling |
