Robert Kelley

Distinguished Service Professor of Management

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Education

• Colorado State University - Ph D - 1977
• University of Texas at Austin - MA - 1975
• Drake University - BA - 1971

Research

Managing Intellectual Capital and Knowledge-Intensive Businesses; Designing Customer Driven Strategies and Services; Developing Star Performers; Followership and Leadership in Business; Gold-Collar Workers and the Creative Class; Productivity and Performance Improvement; Talent Engagement and Management; Organizational Change; Learning the New Rules of Business; Marketing

Publications

• The Realism of Race in Judicial Decision-Making: An Empirical Analysis by Plaintiffs’ Race and Judges’ Race

  (author(s): Robert Kelley, Pat Chew)
  Harvard Journal of Racial & Ethnic Justice, 2012

• Secrets of the Stars

  (author(s): Robert Kelley, Pat Chew)
  American Lawyer, 2009

• Myth of the Color-Blind Judge: An Empirical Analysis of Racial Harassment Cases

  (author(s): Robert Kelley, Pat Chew)
  Washington University Law Review, 2009

• Re-Thinking Followership
  The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations

  Jossey-Bass, 2008

• Followership and Its Relationship to Leadership
  Encyclopedia of Leadership

  Berkshire/Sage, 2004

• How to Be a Star Engineer

  IEEE Spectrum, 1999

• How to Be a Star at Work: Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed (Revised edition, 1999)

  Times Books/Random House, 1998

• Self Management at Work

  Training and Development, 1998

• How Bell Labs Creates Star Performers

  (author(s): Robert Kelley, J. Caplan)
  Harvard Business Review, 1993

• The Power of Followership

  Doubleday, 1992

• In Praise of Followers

  Harvard Business Review, 1988

• Consulting: The Complete Guide to a Profitable Career (Revised Edition)

  Charles Scribners and Sons, 1986

• The Gold Collar Worker: Harnessing the Brainpower of the New Workforce

  Addison Wesley, 1985

Awards and Honors

• Carnegie Mellon University - Doherty Teaching Prize Nominee (2007)
• Carnegie Mellon University - "Remember Your Professor" Award of Merit (2007)
• Colorado State University - Jacob Hautaluoma Distinguished Alumni Award, Psychology (2004)
• Colorado State University - Honor Alumnus (2003)
• American Psychology Association - Consulting Psychology Research Award (1978)

University Service

• Tepper Accelerate Board (2014 - 2016)
• Tepper MBA Career Services Advisory (2007 - 2008)
• Tepper MBA Career Services Advisory (2006 - 2007)
• Tepper MBA Placement Advisory (2005 - 2006)