Mendoza School of Business

Timothy Hubbard

Assistant Professor; Donnelly Fellow in Participatory Management
Management & Organization
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Tim Hubbard is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization and Donnelly Fellow in Participatory Management at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. He is also the Extended Reality (XR) Faculty Fellow and a Co-Director of the University of Notre Dame Virtual Reality Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and holds degrees from Thunderbird School of Global Management and the University of Illinois. Dr. Hubbard's research examines the cognitive and social factors influencing leaders and their organizations, with particular expertise in CEO characteristics, corporate governance, and decision-making in immersive environments. He is pioneering the use of virtual reality as a platform for management research and education, establishing himself as a leader in XR applications for organizational studies. His work spans executive personality, CEO dismissal, boardroom diversity, and stakeholder reactions to organizational events. His research has been published in premier journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Academy of Management Discoveries, with his work cited nearly 1,000 times. Dr. Hubbard has been recognized as a global expert on executive decision-making, appearing in print outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and live broadcasts on CNN International, Al Jazeera, and National Public Radio. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. His honors include the Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Journal, Outstanding Author Contribution Award from Emerald, and the James Dincolo Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. Prior to entering academia, Tim worked for Caterpillar and IBM. Dr. Hubbard teaches Strategic Management at the undergraduate and master's levels, as well as Organizational Theory in the Ph.D. program.

Education
Ph D, University of Georgia
MBA, Thunderbird School of Global Management
BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Areas of Expertise
Behavioral Strategy
Strategic Leadership
Corporate Governance

"Competition and Constituents’ Polarization Online", (With Anastasiya Zavyalova, Conor Callahan, J. Daniel Zyung), Journal of Management - Accepted (awaiting publication)

"How to Cross the Uncanny Valley: Developing Management Laboratory Studies Using Virtual Reality", (With Michael Villano), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, in-press - Accepted (awaiting publication)

"Conducting Phenomenon-Driven Research Using Virtual Reality and the Metaverse", (With Herman Aguinis), Academy of Management Discoveries, 2023


"The influence of CEO risk tolerance on initial pay packages", (With Scott Graffin, Dane Christensen, Eric Lee), Strategic of Management Journal, 2020

"Unintended Consequences: Information Releases and CEO Stock Option Grants", (With Timothy Quigley, Andrew Ward, Scott Graffin), Academy of Management Journal, 2020

"Fearlessly swimming upstream to risky waters: The role of geographic entry in innovation", (With Curba Lampert, Minyoung Kim, Raja Roy, George Leckie), Journal of Management Studies, 2019


"Safe bets or hot hands? How status and celebrity influence strategic alliance formations by newly-public firms", (With Timothy Pollock, Michael Pfarrer, Violina Rindova), Academy of Management Journal, 61, 2018

"Higher highs and lower lows: The role of Corporate Social Responsibility in CEO dismissal", (With Dane Christensen, Scott Graffin), Strategic Management Journal, 38, 2017

"Reputation as a benefit and a burden? How stakeholders’ organizational identification affects the role of reputation following a negative event", (With Anastasiya Zavyalova, Michael Pfarrer, Rhonda Reger), Academy of Management Journal, 59, 2016

"Executive Personality Assessment With Large Language Models: Updating an Existing Tool and Advancing Similar Measures in Strategy and Management Research", (With Joseph Harrison, Steve Boivie, Oleg Petrenko), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management - Accepted (awaiting publication)

"Extending Upper Echelons Theory: How Evaluators Influence Signal Interpretation and Evaluation", (With Cole Short), New Horizons in Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Cognitive Aids in Strategy, - Accepted (awaiting publication)

All Things Considered on National Public Radio, August 10, 2020


Fast Company, June 1, 2020


CNN, January 30, 2020


Aljazeera English , April 19, 2022


Financial Times, August 11, 2020


New York Times, March 2, 2020