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Stephen Courtright

Executive Director, Tippie Leadership Collaborative and Henry B. Tippie Research Professor

Introduction

Stephen Courtright is the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship at the Tippie College of Business, where he also serves as the founding Executive Director of the Tippie Leadership Collaborative. He received a B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University-Idaho and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Iowa. From 2012-2020, he served as an assistant and associate professor at Texas A&M University, where he held the John E. Pearson Professorship and was named a Presidential Impact Fellow. Dr. Courtright's research on organizational leadership, teamwork, and work-nonwork dynamics has been published in top scholarly journals, earned international awards, received over 8,000 citations, and has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. He is the recipient of several awards for MBA and undergraduate teaching, including being named in 2022 by Poets & Quants as one of the world’s Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors. He has led training and consulted for organizations across the globe, including John Deere, Caterpillar, Halliburton, Saudi Aramco, Dotdash Meredith, HNI Corporation, Win-Co Foods, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Most importantly, Dr. Courtright and his wife, Nicole, are the proud and very busy parents of four children. Together, they enjoy traveling, exploring the outdoors, and serving in their church.

Current Positions

  • Executive Director, Tippie Leadership Collaborative, Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Henry B. Tippie Research Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship

Education

  • PhD in Business Administration, University of Iowa
  • BS in Accounting, Brigham Young University-Idaho

Research Interests

  • Leadership, teams, work-nonwork interface

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Executive MBA GREAT Instructor of the Year - Tippie College of Business, 2023
  • Faculty/Staff Member Making Positive Difference in the Life of a Graduating Senior - University of Iowa, 2023
  • Executive MBA GREAT Instructor of the Year - Tippie College of Business, 2022
  • Poets&Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor, 2022
  • Outstanding Service Contribution by a Faculty Member - Tippie College of Business, 2022
  • Most Impactful Faculty Member - Texas A&M MSHRM Program, 2019
  • Distinguished Teaching Award - Texas A&M Association of Former Students, 2018
  • John E. Pearson Professorship in Business Administration - Texas A&M University, 2018 - 2020
  • Presidential Impact Fellowship - Texas A&M University, 2017 - 2020
  • Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family - Kanter International, 2017

Professional Memberships

  • Academy of Management
  • Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Selected Publications

  • McClean, S. T., Yim, J., Courtright, S., & Dunford, B. B. (2021). Transformed by the family: An episodic, attachment theory perspective on family-work enrichment and transformational leadership. Journal of Applied Psychology. 106 pp. 1848-1866. DOI: 10.1037/apl0000869.
  • Smith, T. A., Butts, M. M., Courtright, S., Duerden, M. D., & Widmer, M. (2022). Work-leisure blending: An integrative conceptual review and framework to guide future research. Journal of Applied Psychology. 107 pp. 560-580. DOI: 10.1037/apl0000924.
  • McClean, S. T., Courtright, S., Yim, J., & Smith, T. A. (2021). Making nice or faking nice? Exploring supervisors' two-faced response to their past abusive behavior. Personnel Psychology. 74 pp. 693-719. DOI: 10.1111/peps.12424.
  • McClean, S. T., Barnes, C. M., Courtright, S., & Johnson, R. E. (2019). Resetting the clock on dynamic leader behaviors: A conceptual integration and agenda for future research. Academy of Management Annals. 13 pp. 479-508. DOI: 10.5465/annals.2017.0081.
  • Stewart, G., Courtright, S., & Manz, C. C. (2019). Self-leadership: A paradoxical core of organizational behavior. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. 6 pp. 47-67. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012218-015130.
  • Thiel, C. E., Harvey, J., Courtright, S., & Bradley, B. (2019). What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: How teams rebound from early-stage relationship conflict. Journal of Management. 45 pp. 1623-1659. DOI: 10.1177/0149206317729026.
  • Andrus, J. L., Withers, M. C., Courtright, S., & Boivie, S. (2019). Go your own way: Exploring the causes of top executive turnover. Strategic Management Journal. 40 pp. 1151-1168. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3020.
  • Courtright, S., McCormick, B., Mistry, S., & Wang, J. (2017). Quality charters or quality members? A control theory perspective on team charters and team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology. 102 pp. 1462-1470. DOI: 10.1037/apl0000229.
  • Courtright, S. H., Gardner, R. G., Smith, T. A., McCormick, B. W., & Colbert, A. E. (2016). My family made me do it: A cross-domain, self-regulatory perspective on antecedents to abusive supervision. Academy of Management Journal. 59 pp. 1630-1652. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2013.1009.
  • Barrick, M. R., Thurgood, G., Smith, T., & Courtright, S. H. (2015). Collective organizational engagement: Linking motivational antecedents, strategic implementation, and firm level performance. Academy of Management Journal. 58 pp. 111-135. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2013.0227.

Selected Presentations

  • "How was work today? Instrumental and affective pathways of cultivating voice at home to propel voice at work," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2024.
  • "Good cop, bad cop? How co-leader behavioral complementarity impacts team coordination and cohesion," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2024.
  • "Executive Education: Recommendations for Faculty," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Wyoming, November 2023.
  • "Recognizing and Addressing Burnout," Guest/Invited Speaker at Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2022.
  • "How was work today? Instrumental and affective pathways of cultivating voice at home to propel voice at work," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, September 2022.
  • "Supervisor- supervisor fit: How co-leaders’ behavioral fit impacts team coordination and cohesion," Accepted Speaker at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 2022.
  • "Ask and you shall receive? Linking leader development seeking to developmental opportunities," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of British Columbia, March 2022.
  • "Ask and You Shall Receive? Linking Leader Development Proactivity to Developmental Opportunities," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Minnesota, October 2021.
  • "Ask and you shall receive? Linking leader development proactivity to developmental opportunities," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2021.
  • "When a leader is ostracized: A multilevel model of leaders’ experienced ostracism at work," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2021.

Employment History

  • Director of Executive Education, Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Iowa, 2021 - 2023

Editorial & Review Activities

  • Area Editor, Oxford Bibliographies in Management, April 2023.
  • Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal, January 2015.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2015.