Management Research Summit

The University of Delaware Lerner Management Research Summit is an annual event that provides a platform for mid-Atlantic management scholars to present and consume research, build relationships, and discuss issues related to academia.

Contact

For more information, contact Lerner Events at lernerevents@udel.edu or (302) 831-3850.

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News

• Wendy Smith receives Academy of Management Annals Decade Award - Lerner professor Wendy Smith received the 2026 Academy of Management Annals Decade Award, recognizing her influential research on how organizations and leaders navigate competing demands and persistent tensions.
• Beth Schinoff’s Research Focuses on Worker Chronic Pain - Schinoff studied workers fulfilling job requirements as they attempted to pass as ideal-worker-bodied.
• Lerner Profs Define Greed as Harmful to People, Society - Analyzing more than 500 academic studies across economics, psychology, management, finance and sociology, their conclusion was unequivocal: greed is neither good nor sustainable.
• Lerner College Hosts Annual Management Research Summit - During the day-long conference, management scholars met with one another, discussed research ideas and created future collaborations for research.
• Lerner Hosts Annual Management Research Summit - On  March 14, the Lerner College hosted its annual Management Research Summit "Pi in the Sky: Dreaming Big in Management Research." With over 18 schools throughout the Mid-Atlantic region being represented by attendees, this particular Management Research Summit was the largest one to date.

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Summit History

2019 Speakers

Parthiban David
Professor of Management
American University’s Kogod School of Business

Daan Van Knippenberg
Joseph F. Rocereto Professor of Management
Academic Director of the Institute of Strategic Leadership
Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business

Sean Martin
Assistant Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business

Kisha Lashley
Assistant Professor of Management
University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce

2018 Speakers

Stephen Humphrey
Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Management
The Penn State Smeal College of Business

Marta Geletkanycz
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Boston College Carrol School of Management

Andrew Carton
Associate Professor of Management
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Sinead Monaghan
Assistant Professor
Rutgers Business School