Kimberly Elsbach

Research Expertise: Leadership in organizations, perception and management of individual and organizational images, identities and reputations, especially images of legitimacy, trustworthiness and creativity Courses Taught : The Individual & Group Dynamics, Negotiation in Organizations, Business Policy and Strategy Fast Facts: - International Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University - NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative and National Champion Masters Swimmer - Past UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow - Globally visible expert in organizational behavior Professor Kimberly Elsbach focuses her research on the acquisition and maintenance of organizational images, and identities and reputations, especially images of legitimacy, trustworthiness and creativity. She also teaches and studies negotiation skills in competitive business environments. Her research provides a framework for communicating with shareholders, customers and employees in the immediacy of a reputation crisis and through long-term recovery. In papers published in the Harvard Business Reviewand the Academy of Management Journal, Elsbach showed how Hollywood movie and television producers judge the creativity of people pitching story ideas. Elsbach has published extensively on organizational reputations and controversies. She has studied the impacts of telecommuting and how firms and employees have dealt with the transformation of their workplace from a traditional office to a “hoteling” environment, in which employee have no permanent offices and reserve workspaces on a daily basis. Elsbach is an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University. Elsbach earned her Ph.D. in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University. She earned both her M.S. and B.S. in industrial and management engineering from the University of Iowa.

Awards

2010 Paper of the Year Award , Human Relations, “How passive ‘face time’ affects perceptions of employees: Evidence of spontaneous trait inference,” 2011.

Stephen G. Newberry Chair in Leadership , UC Davis Graduate School of Management, 2010.

International Research Fellow , Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, 2010.

Elected Member , Macro Organizational Behavior Society, 2009.

Two papers named to list of 17 most interesting publications in organization and management literature from the past 100 years. _Academy of Management Journal_Editorial Review Board, 2006.

2003 Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award , Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division, 2004.

2003 Best Paper Award , Academy of Management Journal, 2004.

Chancellor’s Fellow , UC Davis, 2001-05.