Professor of Management, The Bill Munday School of Business
Mary B. Dunn joined the faculty at St. Edward’s in 2012. She previously served on the faculty of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and currently serves as our Chair for the Management Department. Mary completed her PhD in Organization Studies at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She received an MBA degree from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Her scholarly research focuses on professionals’ social networks, learning and knowledge creation, as well as institutional logic and change in professions. Her work has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and the Management Teaching Review.
I believe students learn the most when they apply theories and frameworks to phenomena of interest. In my classes, I take an experiential approach and challenge students to think critically. Together, we create an intellectual atmosphere that promotes active engagement and learning.
Education
PhD Organization Studies at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 2006
MBA at the Graduate School of Management (now the Paul Merage School of Business) at the University of California, Irvine, California, 1999
BA in French and political science at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1993