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The Department of Management at the Gatton College of Business and Economics earned an overall national rank of 36th in the
Incoming assistant professor, Robert Krause, has just had a recent research article published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that is featured in the Wall Street Journal. Read WSJ Article
For decades, the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics has conducted and published cutting-edge research and training in the rapidly expanding field of social network analysis.
A paper by Dan Halgin, Steve Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, and Scott Soltis entitled "Audience perceptions of high-status ties and network advantage: The market for coaching jobs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (2000–2011)" was recently selected as one of the top 3 Be
Walter “Wally” Ferrier, chair of and professor in the Department of Management in the Gatton College, co-authored a paper “Competitive Rationales: Beneath the Surface of Competitive Behavior” that was recently published in the Journal of Management. The study argues that the field of competitive dynamics can benefit from a more encompassing and nuanced portrayal of competitive interaction.
According to assistant professor of management Susan Zhu and co-authors, even if your organization doesn’t have a “blinding” policy for hiring and other people evaluations, it’s possible to reap some of the benefits. Read the full article in MIT Sloan Management Review, "Why Putting On Blinders Can Help Us See More Clearly."
University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that two recent UK graduates have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to travel abroad to teach, study or pursue research for the 2021-22 academic year. One of those individuals was Schuyler Baas, a 2020 management and Lewis Honors College graduate, who will teach in Spain and lead a Model United Nations Program. Read the full story.
Endowed Professor of Management Ajay Mehra gave an invited talk, entitled "Gender, Structural Holes, and Legitimacy," for students and faculty at INSEAD, a leading European business school.
Working with a team of computer scientists, Ajay Mehra published a paper in the interdisciplinary journal, Social Networks on how gender and rank shape emergent patterns of social interaction on an Enterprise Social Media (ESM) platform.
