Management

Management Faculty

Ph.D. Students

Management

Learn the ins and outs of what makes an organization successful, starting at the top! Management studies the roles of leaders and their organizational impact. Major topics include: employee behavior and motivation, bargaining and negotiation, team development, leadership and innovation, managing diversity, human resource management, strategic change, managing competitive environments, corporate strategy and strategic alliances, and strategy formulation and implementation.

At both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the courses we offer in management are designed to help students learn skills such as leadership, critical thinking, problem solving, sound decision-making, oral and written communication, interpersonal skills, leadership, organizing and planning activities, diversity management and cross-cultural skills.

Management Pathways at UCR School of Business

B.S. in Business Administration with a Concentration in Management

Get a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in management. Each concentration offers a wide selection of courses in the management to choose from. Students must complete five courses within the management concentration. See the concentration in management degree plan.

At the undergraduate level, management students can choose their concentrations in the following areas:

> General management
> Human resources management
> International management
> Public policy and management

Bachelors of Science Program

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

A Master of Business Administration is essential for advancement in many career paths. Gain the unique skill sets that will differentiate you as an expert in a particular area of business by choosing one or two concentrations. The management concentration requires five courses, and students may choose from a wide range of electives within the concentration. At the graduate level, UCR School of Business offers elective courses in:

> Entrepreneurial management
> General management
> Human resources management/organizational behavior
> International management

MBA Program

Ph.D. with a Concentration in Strategic Management and Organization

The Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Strategic Management and Organization prepares students for an academic career researching and teaching organizational behavior and strategy. As a Ph.D. student in Strategic Management and Organization, you will be working with faculty who are outstanding researchers, published in the very best journals in the field, and who have considerable experience successfully advising doctoral students.

Ph.D. Program

Faculty in Management

Management Seminars & Conferences

MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SERIES 2023 - 2024

Date/Location	Presenter	Paper
Thursday, October 19, 2023 AND-121, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Marlo Raveendran \| UCR School of Business, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management	TBA
Thursday, October 26, 2023 AND-121, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Mindy Truong \| UCR School of Business, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management	TBA
Thursday, November 9, 2023 AND-121, time TBA	Hengchen Dai \| University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business	The Devil Is in the Details and Context: Lessons about Nudge Scalability
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 AND-121, 9:30 am - 11:00 am	David Daniels \| National University of Singapore Business School	Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?
Thursday, December 7, 2023 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Sukhun Kang \| University of California, Santa Barbara	The Folding Effect: Dimensional Shifts and Reorientation in Organizational Search
Thursday, January 18, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Yuen Huo \| University of California, Los Angeles - Psychology	Privileged Identities and Response to Social Change
Thursday, January 25, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Katina Sawyer \| University of Arizona, Eller College of Management	Job Search as a Source of Disadvantage?: How Marginalized Populations Navigate Finding Employment
Thursday, February 1, 2024 AND-021, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Ye Li \| UCR School of Business, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management	Complementarity Neglect: When People Select Disadvantageous Partners With Overlapping Mistakes
Thursday, February 1, 2024 AND-021, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Victoria Zhang \| University of Wisconsin-Madison	Professional Networks, Regulation, and the Cessation of High-Risk Prescribing in the Prescription Opioid Crisis
Thursday, February 15, 2024 Rescheduling for the Fall	Sarah Doyle \| University of Arizona, Eller College of Management	TBA
Thursday, February 29, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Juliana Schroder \| University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business	"Demeaning” aid: How dehumanization of recipients affects aid decisions
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	David Gomulya \| Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business	TBA
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Chris Ryder \| University of Michigan, Ross School of Business	Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches
Friday, April 26, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Jack Glaser \| University of California, Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy	TBA
Thursday, May 9, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Randall S. Peterson \| London Business School	Team Conflict Management: Accounting for the Microfoundations of Intragroup Conflict
Thursday, May 23, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Eden King \| Rice University - Psychology	TBA
Thursday, May 23, 2024 AND-121, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Ashley Martin \| Stanford Graduate School of Business	TBA

The AY 2023/2024 seminars are held in person at Anderson Hall. If you are interested in attending, please contact Management seminar coordinator Demetrius Lewis.

MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SERIES 2022 - 2023

Date/Location	Presenter	Paper
Thursday, February 9, 2023 ANDHL-021, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Kannan Srikanth \| Ohio Sate University	Your Past Matters to My Future
Thursday, March 2, 2023 Zoom, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Linda Greer \| Michigan Sate University	Responding to the Emotions of Others at Work: A Review and Integrative Theoretical Framework for the Effects of Emotion-Response Strategies on Work-Related Outcomes
Thursday, April 13, 2023 Zoom, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Eric Jun Xu \| University of California, Riverside	How stakeholders’ economic connection affects the role of reputation following a negative event? Evidence from the venture capital industry
Thursday, April 27, 2023 Cancelled	Linda Argote \| Carnegie Mellon University	Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Resuscitation Team Performance
Thursday, May 11, 2023 ANDHL-021, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Martin Ganco \| University of Wisconsin	TBA
Thursday, May 25, 2023 Zoom, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Ziyi Zhang \| University of California, Riverside	Growth Leadership Theories and Their Effects in Workplace

The AY 2022/2023 seminars are held in-person at Anderson Hall or remote. If you are interested in attending, please contact Management seminar coordinator Haibo Liu.

MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SERIES 2019 - 2020

Date/Time	Presenter
Thursday, November 1, 2019	Jake Grandy (CSU Long Beach)
Thursday, November 21, 2019	Tony Tong (Leeds School of Business)
Thursday, January 10, 2020	Soo Hong Chew (Southwestern University)
Thursday, January 16, 2020	Mark Packard
Thursday, January 30, 2020	Sangyun Kim
Thursday, February 13, 2020	Eugene Caruso (UCLA)
Thursday, February 27, 2020	Dan Goldstein (Microsoft Research)
Thursday, March 5, 2020	Danni Wang (Rutgers)
Thursday, April 2, 2020	Pamela Smith (UCSD)

MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SERIES 2018- 2019

Date/Time	Presenter	Paper
Thursday, May 23, 2019	Eugene Caruso (UCLA)	TBD
Thursday, May 9, 2019	Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD)	TBD
Thursday, February 28, 2019	Sally Sadoff (UC San Diego)	“Improving College Instruction through Incentives”
Thursday, February 21, 2019	Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich)	“Market Competition and Effectiveness of Performance Pay: Evidence From The Field”
Thursday, February 14, 2019	Maia Young (UC Irvine)	“How Emotions Move Us: An Integrative Framework for Emotions and Decision Making”
Thursday, January 31, 2019	Sekou Bermiss (UT Austin)	“Scaling Impact: Understanding How Growth is Conceptualized in Social Ventures”
Thursday, December 6, 2018	Melissa Valentine (Stanford)	“Binning is Sinning: How Algorithmic Decision‐making Reconfigures the Org Chart”
Thursday, November 29, 2018	Jennifer Chatman (UC Berkeley)	“Paradigm Lost: New Frontiers in Organizational Culture Research”
Thursday, November 15, 2018	Ann Majchrzak (USC)	“Knowledge Co‐Creation with Crowdsourcing”