Four members of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville this week have been named to Diversity MBA Magazine’s list of the “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive and Emerging Leaders.” The complete list will appear in the magazine’s August issue.
Martin Davidson, associate dean and chief diversity officer; Erika Hayes James, Bank of America professor of research; Peter Rodriguez, associate dean of international affairs and director of the Tayloe Murphy International Center; and Gregory Fairchild, associate professor of business administration and executive director of the Tayloe Murphy Center Virginia, each were honored by the magazine in recognition of their positions, advanced degrees, scope of responsibility and/or community service work.
“Engaging diversity is a key objective of the Darden strategy, which is why we are so delighted to be recognized by Diversity MBA Magazine,” Davidson said in a statement. “This is an important milestone in our ongoing vision to be the best business school in the world at attracting, incorporating and leveraging diverse perspectives.”
In other faculty news, Darden has hired Melissa Thomas-Hunt, an expert in the fields of leadership, organizational behavior and negotiations, as a tenured associate professor. Thomas-Hunt, who earned her PhD from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, was most recently a tenured associate professor at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management.
Her research focuses on the impact of status, the perceptions of teams by outsiders and information exchange between negotiators. She has taught negotiations electives to MBA and executive education students and core and elective classes in leading organizations and teams.
Read the full article: UVA’s Darden Faculty Recognized for Diversity