- Mason Carpenter
- University of Wisconsin at Madison
Mason A. Carpenter (Ph.D., 1997, UT Austin) is the M. Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership in UW Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. He is responsible for the MBA and Executive MBA courses in business, corporate, and global strategy, and the curriculum offered through Wisconsin’s Strategic Leadership Institute. He is co-author of Strategic Management: A Dynamic Perspective, 2nd Edition with Dr. Gerry Sanders and published by Prentice Hall.
His research concerns corporate governance, top management teams, social networks, and the strategic management of global startups, and is published widely in top management and strategy journals. He is Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Area Editor for Business Expert Press, and serves on a handful of editorial boards. His teaching accomplishments include MBA Professor of the Year, notoriety as one of the two most popular professors in several BusinessWeek MBA program polls, the Larson Excellence in Teaching award from the School of Business and, most recently, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Talya Bauer (Ph.D., Purdue University) is the Gerry & Marilyn Cameron Professor of Management at Portland State University. Dr. Bauer has coauthored three textbooks with Flat World Knowledge including Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, and Atlas Black: Managing to Succeed (a management Graphic Novel). She is an award winning teacher of courses such as organizational behavior, management, power and influence, negotiations, human resource management, and training and development at the graduate and undergraduate level. She conducts research about relationships at work. More specifically, she works in the areas of leadership, selection, and new employee onboarding which have resulted in dozens of journal publications in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Learning & Education. She has acted as a consultant for government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations. Dr. Bauer is involved in professional organizations and conferences at the national level such as serving on the Human Resource Management Executive Committee of the Academy of Management and SIOP Program Chair and member-at-large. She is Editor of Journal of Management and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practices. She is a Fellow of SIOP and APS.
Berrin Erdogan, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Management and the Express Employment Professionals Endowed Professor at Portland State University. She teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management. Her research interests focus on individual attachment to organizations through fairness, leader-subordinate relations, contextual factors such as organizational culture, and person-organization fit. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. She conducted managerial seminars on the topics of motivation, organizational justice, performance appraisals, training and development and worked as a corporate trainer. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Personnel Psychology.
Berrin Erdogan has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Bogazici University, an M.S. degree in Behavioral Sciences from Istanbul University School of Business Administration, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Organizational Behavior/Human Resources Management from University of Illinois at Chicago.
