Michelle Bligh

Michelle C. Bligh’s research interests focus on organizational culture and the role of leaders in influencing and changing corporate cultures, particularly in post-merger organizations. In addition, she studies charismatic leadership, interpersonal trust, and political and executive leadership.

Her work has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Leadership, Employee Relations, The Leadership Quarterly, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Group and Organization Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and The Journal of Business Ethics, and she was awarded the 2003 Sage Outstanding Paper Award for Research Methods. She serves on the editorial review board of The Leadership Quarterly and is co-editor of a 2007 special issue of Applied Psychology: An International Review on follower-centric approaches to leadership. She also co-edited a book titled Follower-Centered Perspectives on Leadership: A Tribute to the Memory of James R. Meindl as part of the Leadership Horizons series.

Bligh has helped a variety of public and private sector organizations assess and improve their effectiveness in the areas of leadership development, organizational culture, and change management. Through her work at the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, the Center for International Leadership in Buffalo, New York, and the Center for Leadership Innovation and Mentorship Building (CLIMB) at California State University San Marcos, she has gained expertise in a number of industries, including local and state law enforcement, consulting, healthcare, and real estate.

Publications

Bligh, M. C., & Riggio, R. (Eds.). When Near is Far and Far is Near: Exploring Distance in Leader-Follower Relationships. Wiley-Blackwell.

Bligh, M. C., Kohles, J. C., & Pillai, R. (In press). Crisis and Charisma in the California Recall Election. In Collinson, D., Grint, K., & Jackson, B. (Eds.), Leadership, Sage Library of Business & Management. London, UK: Sage.

Al-Ani, B., Horspool, A., & Bligh, M. C. (August, 2011). Collaborating with ‘Virtual Strangers’: Towards Developing a Framework for Leadership in Distributed Teams. Leadership, 7(3).

Bligh, M. C., & Schyns, B. (In press). Leading Question: Contemporary Issues Surrounding the Romance of Leadership. In Bell, D. S. Political Leadership, Sage Library of Political Science. London, UK: Sage.

Bligh, M. C., Merolla, J., Schroedel, J. R., & Gonzalez, R. (In press). Finding Her Voice: Hillary Clinton’s Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Women’s Studies.

Bligh, M. C., Schlehofer, M. M., Casad, B. J., & Gaffney, A. M. (In press). Competent Enough, But Would You Vote for Her? Gender Stereotypes and Media Influences on Perceptions of Women Politicians. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Bligh, M. C. (2010). Followership and Follower-Centred Approaches. In Bryman, A., Grint, K., Jackson, B., Uhl-Bien, M., & Collinson, D. (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Leadership (pp. 1180-1216). London, UK: Sage.

Classes

MGT346 Leadership and Followership

Jenny Darroch

Jenny Darroch’s research and teaching interests sit at the marketing and innovation interface. In this capacity, she has examined macroeconomic policy that fosters innovation; behaviors and practices within organizations that lead to more innovative outcomes; and definition of innovation itself.

Her early work on innovation was around the time National Innovation Systems (NIS) became popular. Here, Darroch developed a methodology for examining New Zealand’s NIS. While working in New Zealand as a Director of Entrepreneurship at the University of Otago, Darroch developed the country’s first Masters in Entrepreneurship, which included a city-wide incubator to foster and develop startups.

Identifying drivers of innovation led her to develop the first ever instrument to measure an organization’s knowledge management orientation. Two of her articles (“Developing a measure of knowledge management behaviours and practices” and “Knowledge management, innovation and firm performance”) were recognized as classics in the Knowledge Management field based on the high number of citations they received.

Examining what innovation means led Darroch to examine the impact innovations have on markets, underscoring her signature course titled “Transforming and Creating Markets to Generate Growth,” which informed her book Marketing Through Turbulent Times. Darroch also published an article in the Journal of Business Research on market creation in the pharmaceutical industry.

Darroch’s interest in markets led to her latest book, Why Marketing to Women Doesn’t Work. The book is essentially an exploration of market segmentation and was written in response to how poorly marketers seem to understand the role of women today.

In addition to work that speaks directly to Darroch’s interest in marketing and innovation, Darroch co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science dedicated to Peter Drucker (with George Day and Stan Slater). This was published in 2006 (Issue 34, Volume 3).

Darroch is deeply interested in Drucker’s work on a functioning society and inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. She is using her interest in macroeconomic policy, innovation systems and human capital to examine at how organizations and economies can be more innovative, but in a sustainable way.

Publications

Jenny Darroch, Marketing Through Turbulent Times. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Jenny Darroch, Why Marketing to Women Doesn’t Work. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
For a list of Darroch’s academic publications go to Google Scholar

Classes

MGT321/514 Marketing Management
MGT 328 Digital Marketing
MGT 331 Strategic Brand Management
MGT708 Transforming and Creating Markets to Generate Growth

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Jay Prag

Jay Prag has been teaching at the Drucker School of Management since 1986. He also teaches at Harvey Mudd College. He serves on the Board of Directors of LINC Housing, a nonprofit low-income housing developer in Long Beach. He also served on the Board of Directors of Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont and was actively involved in many business start-ups.

Prag has won numerous teaching awards in his years at the Claremont Colleges. He also served as Academic Director for the Executive MBA and the Financial Engineering Programs at the Drucker School.

Classes

MGT307 Game Theory
MGT312 Doing Business in a Culture of Sustainability: Costa Rica
MGT383/582 Economics of Strategy
MGT475 Selected Topics in Finance: Fixed Income and Other Investments
MGT382 Macro Economics
MGT512 Corporate Finance

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James Wallace

James Wallace’s research looks at the incentive effects and the information content of alternate performance metrics such as Economic Value Added (EVA). In addition, he is examining the relationship between corporate social responsibility and value-based management.

Wallace has extensive private industry and academic experience prior to joining the faculty at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Management. He has worked as an auditor in public accounting, as a division controller for a major health care provider, and as a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine.

Publications

“An Economic Look at Corporate Social Responsibility?” with B. Lougee

“IRC Section 162(m) and the Law of Unintended Consequences,” with K. Ferris

“Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts? Synergies in earnings versus EVA,” with G. Biddle and R. Bowen.

“Value-Based Management in an Era of Corporate Social Responsibility” with J. Martin and W. Petty

Kenneth R. Ferris and James Wallace, “Financial Accounting For Executives.” Cambridge Business Publishers, 2009

Classes

MGT312 Doing Business in a Culture of Sustainability: Costa Rica
MGT326A/511 Financial Accounting
MGT326B Managerial Accounting