Amanda Bullough

Amanda Bullough is an associate professor of management, specializing in global and women’s leadership, and co-founder and research director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship and leadership at Thunderbird School for Global Management in Arizona, a premier university of business graduate programs. Her research and teaching span the subjects of global leadership, organizational behavior, women and gender, cross-cultural management, international business, entrepreneurship, multicultural teams and professional development. She teaches undergraduate students, graduate students and executives from companies such as Bank of America, W.L. Gore, AAA, DuPont, M&T Bank, Toyota Financial Services, Christiana Healthcare and others. Dr. Bullough publishes in premier journals (Journal of Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Leadership Quarterly, etc.), serves on the editorial review board for Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and has presented at numerous international business and management conferences. Her newest stream of research revolves around her role on a 7-person core research team for the GLOBE 2020 Project — a global culture and leadership research initiative with data covering 99% of the world’s GDP and 97% of the world’s population.

Dr. Bullough has also won the 2020 E. Arthur Trabant Award for Women’s Equity from the University of Delaware, was honored as a 2019 Women in Business Awardee from Delaware Today magazine and won the WAIB Best Paper award for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research at the Academy of International Business conference in 2009.

She traveled and worked in approximately 40 countries such as Finland, China, Thailand, Afghanistan, Jordan, Mexico, Algeria and many others. Dr. Bullough has consulted for organizations such as the World Bank, OECD and the Global Business School Network (GBSN) on projects related to entrepreneurship education and training in developing countries. She has also been the academic director for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneurship training programs in Afghanistan and Peru, which provided business development training for under-served women entrepreneurs and promoted the active involvement of women in business for the benefit of economic and societal development. Dr. Bullough is also a past president of the Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB), which is a networking and scholarship group that supports female scholars in international business.

Dr. Bullough received her doctor of philosophy degree from Florida International University in Management & International Business. She also holds a master of arts degree in international studies from Florida International University and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of South Florida with a major in marketing. Prior to receiving her graduate degrees, Dr. Bullough worked in marketing and advertising and engaged in extensive international travel in both developed and developing countries around the world.

Education

• M.A. Florida International University (2003 — 2004)
• B.S. University of South Florida - College of Business Administration (1995 — 1997)
• West Virginia University (1993 — 1995)

Companies

• Associate Professor, Management & Global Leadership University of Delaware (2018)
• Co-Founder & Research Director, Women’s Leadership Initiative University of Delaware (2016)
• GLOBE 2020 Principal Co-Investigator GLOBE Project (2011)
• Assistant Professor, Management & Global Leadership University of Delaware (2014 — 2018)
• President WAIB (Women in the Academy of International Business) (2015 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor of Global Entrepreneurship & Leadership Thunderbird School of Global Management (2008 — 2014)
• Instructor & Research Assistant Florida International University - College of Business (2004 — 2008)
• Club Recreation Manager Georgetown Aquatics Corp. (2001 — 2003)
• Aquatic Facility Manager/Instructor Montgomery County Government (2001 — 2003)

Skills

• Spanish
• SPSS
• Emerging Markets

Other

Global Management, Training, Public Speaking, Marketing Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Intercultural Communication, International Development, Management Consulting, Strategy, Higher Education, Business Planning, Market Research, Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, Research, Business Development, Management, International Business, Program Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship