Research topics

• Teams in organizations
• Empowerment and empowering leadership
• Social networks
• Multi-level theory
• Strategic entrepreneurship
• Corporate alliance and networks
• Learning processes
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Creativity and innovation
• Strategic human resource management
• International expansion
• Long-term decision making

Placement

The Management and Entrepreneurship department produces high quality scholars who have had very successful academic careers in tenure-track positions at top universities. UConn Management PhD graduates have accepted faculty positions at American University, Arizona State, Bentley, Colorado State, Clemson, Drexel, Fordham, Northeastern, Penn State, Oregon State, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rutgers, University of Hartford, Iowa, Kentucky, Southern California, and University of Texas-El Paso.

Location

The Management and Entrepreneurship PhD Program is an in-residence program located at the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. New York City and Boston are each within a short drive.

Highlights

Our management faculty is a distinguished body of scholars who all publish extensively and have been recognized nationally and internationally for their accomplishments. TAMUGA Rankings track productivity in the eight top-tier Journals in Management. UConn Management Department faculty have tied for 17th in the United States (based on 5-year analysis of all private and public universities). Many hold leadership positions in professional organizations and serve in editorial positions for leading management journals.

A major reason for the success of our students is that they become actively involved in research with our faculty and publish in the best management journals prior to graduation.

Program graduates have earned national recognition for their research contributions. For example, Semin Park '19 Ph.D. received the "Lee Hakel Award" in support of dissertation proposals from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP); Margaret Luciano '15 Ph.D. won Best Dissertation Awards from INGRoup, SIOP, and the Academy of Management; and David Baldridge '01 Ph.D. was awarded the Citations of Excellence "Top Fifty" by Emerald Management Reviews and the Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management. More information on student publications, awards, and accolades can be found at https://management.business.uconn.edu/research/.

Management and Entrepreneurship Ph.D. Faculty

Qing Cao
Associate Professor of Management
PhD, University of Maryland
Research Interests: strategic entrepreneurship, managerial social capital, inter-organizational partnerships,
management in transition economies

Ryan Coles
Assistant Professor of Management
Research Interests: entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, innovation, internationalization

Timothy Folta
Professor of Management
Faculty Director, CCEI
Thomas John and Bette Wolff Family Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship
PhD, Purdue University
Research Interests: entrepreneurship, innovation policy, corporate strategy and diversification, market entry and exit, managing uncertainty

Travis Grosser
Associate Professor of Management
Academic Director, Graduate Programs in Human Resource Management
PhD, University of Kentucky
Research Interests: intra-organizational social networks, employee creativity and innovation implementation, negative workplace relationships, predictors of employee attachment and turnover

Nora Madjar
Associate Professor of Management
PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Research Interests: social context for creativity at work, job design and the creative process, gender, negotiations
and creativity

John Mathieu
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Friar Chair in Leadership & Teams
PhD, Old Dominion University
Research Interests: training, teamwork, leadership, organizational behavior,
multi-level theories, designs, and analyses

Keith Pennington
Assistant Professor of Management
PhD, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: innovation and entrepreneurship

Jo (Kyoungjo) Oh
Assistant Professor of Management
PhD, Michigan State University
Research Interests: mistreatment in the workplace, affect, and workgroups

Evan Rawley
Associate Professor of Management
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: corporate strategy, entrepreneurship

Greg Reilly
Professor of Management and Department Head
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: strategic human resource management, executive compensation, time horizon in strategic management, management teams

Alexandra Rheinhardt
Assistant Professor of Management and PhD Coordinator
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: identity, leadership, social movements, organizational change

Quick Facts Management and Entrepreneurship

Enrollment Profile for Management and Entrepreneurship (Fall 2023)

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grad.business.uconn.edu/apply

Business PhD applications are accepted from September until the fall cohort is complete.