The primary mission of the Department of Management is to equip students with a wide range of skills necessary to succeed as an effective manager in today’s dynamic business environment: Critical thinking and analysis, creative problem solving, leadership, teamwork, decision making, project management, communication, and so on.
The Department’s programs and curricula are where rigorous scholarship meets real-world impact. The faculty consists of an ideal mix of internationally recognized researchers and instructors with extensive industry experience.
The Pillars of Our Management Impact
Build leaders through research, practice, and mentorship.
Turn insights into action for sustainable advantage
Develop talent systems that power high-performing teams.
Navigate cross-border markets with cultural fluency.
Manage teams, brands, and events in the sports economy.
Gain a rigorous, practice-ready foundation in strategy, leadership, HR, entrepreneurship, teamwork, and negotiations - preparing you to lead change and create competitive advantage in any organization.
Elevate your experience with robust career services and international education opportunities, plus unique access to the LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis and a graduate pathway in Strategic Human Resource Management & Analytics.
Faculty Spotlights
Interpersonal dynamics and perceptions in decision-making, teamwork, and human resource management (HRM) with current research projects on advice exchange, HRM practices, workplace ostracism and mistreatment.
People Analytics (Undergraduate and graduate level) with a focus on leveraging people-related data to generate HR, organizational and business insights
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Innovation Strategy
Strategic Management (MGT499), Change Management (MGT661)
Management consultant to Fortune 100 companies, specializing in growth and change initiatives
Studied and performed improv at The Second City Chicago, sharing the stage once graced by John Belushi, Tina Fey, and Eugene Levy - discovering the creative power of building something from nothing.
Social processes and consequences of audience evaluations, with additional interest in how technological developments facilitate entrepreneurship. Serves on the editorial review boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly.
Strategic Management at the University of Kentucky; previously taught entrepreneurship in the MBA and EMBA programs at London Business School.
Housed in Gatton’s Department of Management, the LINKS Center advances how managers understand and optimize networks inside and across organizations. Its work spans four pillars—research, training, consulting, and community-building - so discoveries move quickly from scholarship into practice. Faculty affiliated with LINKS publish widely cited studies (including in Science) and maintain a signature portfolio on alliance strategy, networks, and organizational effectiveness, reinforcing Gatton’s strength in evidence-based management research.
LINKS anchors the department’s research culture: it hosts the invite-only ION Conference to mentor and connect organizational network scholars, and runs the multi-track LINKS Workshop on Social Network Analysis (returning in 2026). Doctoral training is tightly integrated - students gain depth in network theory and methods through seminars, speaker series, and LINKS-led events - making Gatton a destination for scholars who want to study networks in management. Established in 2006 by the late Professor Daniel J. Brass, the center continues to shape the field while supporting managers and organizations that rely on robust, data-driven network insight.
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All Management Research
Published in: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Author(s): Shihan Li, David Krackhardt, Nynke Niezink
Published in: Strategic Management Journal
Author(s): Bryan K Stroube, David M Waguespack
Published in: Personnel Psychology
Author(s): Susan Zhu, Yimin He, Pol Solanelles, Kristin Cullen-Lester
Published in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Author(s): Rebekah Hong, Vijaya Venkataramani, Mengxi Yang
