Rubab Jafry O'Connor

Distinguished Service Professor of Management

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Bio

Rubab Jafry O’Connor is a Distinguished Service Professor of Management at Tepper School of Business where she has created and teaches a unique three-year leadership development course sequence called Business Leadership Endeavor to undergraduate business students. Her other teaching experiences include Organizational Behavior at Tepper School of Business, Organizational Development at Heinz School of Policy and Management, Leadership and Organizations at University of Pittsburgh, Leadership and Budget Financial Management at Duquesne University and Leadership and Organizational Behavior at ICN Business School, France. Her research interests include transformational leadership, student development, confidence, and public speaking.

Prior to teaching, Rubab has held many management roles including academic advising, career consulting for both undergrads and MBAs nationally and internationally. Rubab’s other work experiences include investment banking in credit marketing and as a Research Assistant for United Nations Development Program (UNDP), NY.

Rubab holds a Doctor of Education degree with a concentration in Management from University of Pittsburgh, and Master of Policy and Management with a concentration in Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - MPM - 2005
• University of Pittsburgh - Ed D - 2016

Research

Transformational Leadership; Public Speaking and Confidence Building; College Stressors

Publications

• Linking Transformational Leadership Theory to the Practice of Academic Advising - A Conceptual Paper 

  (author(s): Rubab Jafry O’Connor, Margaret Mbindyo, Ankur Nandedkar)
  Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 21(12), 2021

• Advisor Transformational Leadership and Its Impact on Advisees: A Conceptual Analysis

  (author(s): Rubab Jafry O’Connor, Margaret Mbindyo, Ankur Nandedkar)
  Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 20(14), 2020

• Academic Advising Leadership and Change Management
  

  (author(s): Rubab Jafry O'Connor, Thomas Casey O'Connor, Ankur Nandedkar, Margaret Mbindyo)
  In S. M. Campbell, C. Stevens Taylor, and M. Dial (Eds.) Academic Advising Administration: Essential Knowledge and Skills for the 21st Century (2nd ed.)
  Routledge: New York, 2023

Working Papers

• Faculty Transformational Leadership and Its Impact on Students
  

  (author(s): Rubab Jafry O’Connor, Margaret Mbindyo, Ankur Anandkur)

• Longitudinal Study to Understand the Impact of Soft Skills on Public Speaking and Confidence Building

  (author(s): Rubab Jafry O’Connor)

Honors and Awards

• Recipient of Wimmer Fellowship (2020)
• Recipient of Andrew Carnegie Award (2014)

Professional Activities

• Reviewer - International Journal of Leadership in Higher Education (2023)

• Member - Academy of Management