She is the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Battilana is the coauthor of Power, for All: How it Works and Why it's Everyone's Business, (Simon & Schuster, 2021) written with Tiziana Casciaro.

[6] Battilana is also the coauthor of Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, co-authored with Isabelle Ferreras and Dominique Méda (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

Battilana develops a framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.

In the Dual Purpose Playbook she aims to help managers understand how companies can sustainably pursue both financial and social objectives.

[2] In addition, since joining Harvard University, Battilana has published teaching cases about the work of social innovation leaders and organizations.

Case subjects include the French civic service organization Unis-Cité and the Brazilian public health nonprofit Instituto Dara, as well as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and SASB founder Jean Rogers.