Tim Derdenger

Research Units

The Tepper School maintains a variety of research and education centers that explore a wide range of disciplines and co-curricular activities, often collaborating with other colleges across the Carnegie Mellon campus in advancing theory and practice.

Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

CEIC’s primary mission is to work with industry, labor, government and all other relevant stakeholders to address the strategic problems of the electricity industry. Research, doctoral training, and course development are essential to its mission.

Center for Behavioral & Decision Research

The center provides research support in a mixture of facilities, research assistants and direct funding of new research projects using the tools of psychology, economics, and neuroscience.

Accelerate Leadership Center

The Accelerate Leadership Center offers one-to-one coaching, a series of leadership workshops and Leadership Development Certification for students to create action plans that advance their personal and professional leadership goals.

Center for Organizational Learning, Innovation and Knowledge

Researchers across disciplines are making fundamental contributions to our understanding of learning and knowledge transfer in groups, organizations and social networks.

Collaboration & Conflict Research Lab

CCRL strives to improve collaboration in organizations by advancing applied and basic research on conflict, negotiation, moral behavior, and gender and cultural differences.
 

PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation

The PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation is focused on FINTECH to shape the financial services of the future with technology and analytics. It draws upon the thought and research leadership of Carnegie Mellon faculty and extensive business expertise of PNC stakeholders.

Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship works to serve the entire CMU community to accelerate bringing research innovations and ideas to the global marketplace.

Quantum Technologies Group

Motivated by supply chain, finance, technology, and health care applications, the Quantum Technologies Group at the Tepper School aims to turn quantum computing as a service into industrial reality, help design practical quantum communication networks, and develop quantum-inspired hardware.

Center for Intelligent Business

The mission of the Center for Intelligent Business (CIB) is to explore practical and scalable innovation in Intelligent Business—where AI, analytics, and human expertise intersect.