Kerry Gibson

Academic Division: ManagementKerry Roberts Gibson is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Management Division at Babson College. She previously taught both Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Georgia Tech, where she completed her Ph.D. Professor Gibson’s primary research interest is workplace relationships. She focuses on relationship development mechanisms, such as self-disclosure and gratitude. She explores how these relationship mechanisms drive outcomes, such as organizational identification, engagement, and voice. Professor Gibson’s dissertation focuses on relational identity threat which occurs when relational expectations between supervisors and subordinates are violated. She is published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior and has presented her research at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the Positive Relationships at Work Microcommunity Research Meeting, the Positive Organizational Scholarship Research Conference, and the International Association of Positive Psychology World Congress as well as to company executives. Professor Gibson currently serves on the steering committee for the Positive Relationships at Work Microcommunity and is a member of the Academy of Management and the International Association of Positive Psychology. She was voted 2014 Ph.D. Candidate of the Year by the Scheller College of Business Undergraduates. Professor Gibson previously worked as a senior digital marketing consultant for a restaurant chain, managing a range of chain-wide initiatives and sales innovation strategy. She is also a former educational consultant and 7th grade teacher. She holds an MBA from Georgia Tech and a BS in Education from Georgia State University. ​

Academic Degrees

• Ph D, Georgia Institute of Technology
• MBA, Georgia Institute of Technology
• BSE, Georgia State University

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Awards & Honors

2014 - Voted 2014 Ph.D. Candidate Instructor of the Year by Undergraduate Students, Scheller College of Business

2010 - Dean’s Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology

2005 - Outstanding 2nd Year MBA Student, Georgia Institute of Technology

1999 - Academic Excellence Award, Georgia State University