Nathan Washburn

Nathan Washburn is an Associate Professor of Management at Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. His research on executive economic and stakeholder values and corporate social responsibility is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, and Organization Science. He has also been published in the Harvard Business Review. He received a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2007 and a Master degree in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University in 1995. In the intervening years he worked for Andersen Consulting and Booz Allen Hamilton in Change Management.

EDUCATION

• Arizona State University
  Ph.D. in Business Management, Strategy 2007

• Brigham Young University
  Master of Organizational Behavior 1995
  B.A. International Relations 1992

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• MBA Professor the Year Award 2016
• MBA Professor of the Year Award 2015
• Outstanding Professor in the OD program 2013
• Outstanding Professor in the OD program 2012
• Spirit of Thunderbird Service Award 2012
• Runner up for Best Paper in Academy of Management Review 2012
• Outstanding Professor in the OD program 2011
• Outstanding Professor in the OD program 2010
• Outstanding Professor in the OD program 2009
• Runner up for Best Paper OB Division AOM 2009

PUBLICATIONS

• Washburn, N. T, Waldman, D. A., Sully de Luque, M. F, Carter, M. Z., 2018. Executives’ Stakeholder Values in the Prediction of Work Process Change. Journal of Management Studies, 55: 1423-1451.
• Washburn, N. T., Galvin, B., 2017. Followers Don’t See Their Leaders As Real People. Online article for Harvard Business Review.
• Washburn, N. T., Galvin, B., 2016. Make Sure Your Employees Have Good Things to Say About You Behind Your Back. Online article for Harvard Business Review.
• Washburn, N. T., Brown, K., 2015. How to Reverse the Death Spiral for American Hospitals. Online article for Harvard Business Review.
• Martin, G., Washburn, N. T., Makri, M., & Gomez-Mejia, L. R. 2015. Not all Risk Taking is Born Equal: The behavioral agency model and CEO’s perceptions of firm efficacy. Human Resource Management, 54: 483-498.
• Washburn, N. T., Lange, D. A. 2013. Does Your Company Seem Socially Irresponsible? MIT Sloan Management Review. 55: 10-11.
• Miller, C. C., Washburn, N. T., & Glick, W. H. 2013. The myth of firm performance. Organization Science. 24: 948-964.
• Lange, D. A., Washburn, N. T., 2012. Understanding attributions of corporate social irresponsibility. Academy of Management Review, 37: 300-326. 1 st Runner up for 2012 AMR Best Paper of the Year Award.
• Washburn, N. T., 2012. Garment-Factory Fire Reveals Capitalism at its Rawest. Online article for Harvard Business Review.
• Washburn, N. T., 2012. Apple Discovers a New Market in China: Rich Boyfriends. Online article for Harvard Business Review.
• Washburn, N. T., Hunsaker, B. T. 2011. Finding great ideas in emerging markets. Harvard Business Review, 89, 9: 115-120.
• Washburn, N. T., Hunsaker, B. T. 2011. Why Someone from Apple Needs to Ride the Shanghai Subway. Online article for Harvard Business Review.
• Washburn, N. T. 2009. Why profit shouldn’t be your top goal. Harvard Business Review, 87, 12:23.
• Sully de Luque, M. F., Washburn, N. T., Waldman, D. A., & House, R. J. 2009. Unrequited profit: How stakeholder and economic values relate to subordinate perceptions of leadership and firm performance Administrative Science Quarterly, 53: 626-654. 2 nd Runner up for Best Paper of the Year Award, OB Division AOM 2009.
• Waldman, D. A., Sully de Luque, M. F., Washburn, N. T., & House, R. J. 2006. Cultural and leadership predictors of corporate social responsibility values of top management: A GLOBE study of 15 countries. Journal of International Business Studies, 37: 823-837.