Gerard Beenen

Gerard Beenen is Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Management at California State University, Fullerton. He formerly was Associate Dean and Department Chair at the College of Business & Economics, California State University, Fullerton. He teaches MBA courses on team leadership, organizational change and negotiation. His research focuses on workplace motivation and learning, creativity, and leadership, and has been funded by the Graduate Management Admissions Council and the National Science Foundation. He has published in Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, among others. Before his academic career, he was CEO of a cancer care center, co-founded and sold a high-tech start-up, and was a management consultant with both Bain & Company and Ernst & Young. He recently was Chair of the Management Education and Development (MED) Division of the Academy of Management, serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and recently served as a research advisor to a management consulting firm.