Management

Jill Brown, Heiken Professor of Business Ethics and professor of Management, serves as director of Bentley’s new Executive PhD program, which is specifically designed for experienced managers who want to leverage the power of business to solve today’s most pressing global challenges. The program offers full-time working professionals an intensive, research-based curriculum in a flexible, accelerated format. According to Brown, “Graduates will emerge with the knowledge and skills they need to make game-changing, data-driven decisions that will propel their companies and their careers to the next level.”

Nearly 100 experts on business and gender issues — including Management professor Tatiana Manolova — were invited to Geneva, Switzerland, to share their research during the World Trade Organization’s first-ever World Trade Congress on Gender. During her session, Manolova shared findings from her paper, “Entrepreneurial Responses to COVID-19: Gender, Digitization and Adaptive Capacity.” The study, undertaken with fellow Management professor Linda Edelman and colleagues from other universities, explored the challenges and opportunities encountered by women business owners during the pandemic.

In an article published in Fast Company, Lecturer in Management Susan Vroman discusses the importance of authentic leadership in the workplace. “Authentic leaders have the ability to connect with people, building foundations for both collaborative and individual achievement,” she writes. “Authentic leadership encourages us to be ourselves to accomplish our goals when working with others. While some managers may need to take a beat to revisit who they are and why they value what they do, self-awareness and emotional management enables us to intentionally direct our actions.”