2009 Faculty Pioneer Finalists
Michael Barnett is an associate professor of strategic management in the Department of
Management and Organization at the University of South Florida’s College of Business. He also
holds an Exide Professorship of Sustainable Enterprise and serves as Research Fellow in the
University of South Florida’s interdisciplinary Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions. Prof.
Barnett received Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in management from New York University’s Stern
School of Business. He holds an MBA from Webster University, where was honored as a
distinguished graduate, and a BS in business administration from the University of Missouri,
where he was selected as a research intern for the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program. Prior to
his doctoral studies, Prof. Barnett was an active duty officer in the United States Air Force and
completed Officer Training School as a distinguished graduate.
Dolly Chugh is an assistant professor in the Management and Organizations department at the New York University Stern School of Business. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Professor Chugh worked in both professional services and line manager roles at Morgan Stanley, Sibson & Company, Time Inc., Scholastic Inc. and Merrill Lynch. Professor Chugh received her B.A. from Cornell University where she earned a double major in Psychology and Economics in 1990, an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior / Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2006.
Charles Corbett is a professor of Operations Management and Environmental management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Professor Corbett's research and teaching focus on the interfaces between operations management, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. The environmental work revolves around examining links between good business practices and environmental protection. This has included studying the effects and global diffusion of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 and of the LEED green building standards; the way in which supply contracts are changed from volume-based to service based to align incentives between suppliers and buyers; the environmental footprint of a project-based industry such as the motion picture and television industry; and adoption of energy-efficiency practices in small and medium-sized businesses. His research in entrepreneurship focuses on how for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs and small business owners make decisions and run their organizations on a day-to-day basis. His earlier work has focused mostly on how contracts can help improve coordination between buyers and suppliers, whether related to inventory control, service contracts or project management.
Ann Tenbrunsel is a professor
in the Department of Management at
Mendoza College of Business at The University of Notre Dame and the Arthur F. and Mary J. O'Neil Co-Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. Her research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision-making, with her dissertation on this topic winning the State Farm Dissertation Award. Her work in this area has focused partially on the situational factors that lead to unethical decision-making, including the role that temptation, uncertainty, power and sanctions play in the ethical decision-making process. More recently, she has explored the process of ethical fading, arguing that individuals often make unethical decisions because the ethical aspects of the decision are hidden to the decision maker. She has also examined the role that organizations play in promoting unethical decisions, including the influence of formal and informal systems.
