Corinne Post, PhD
The Fred J. Springer Endowed Chair in Business Leadership, Professor of Management Villanova School of Business | Villanova University
- Villanova PA
Corinne Post, PhD, is an expert in workplace diversity with a focus in women on boards, in top management teams, and in leadership roles.
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Dr. Post earned her BS in Organization Management and a Masters in International Management from HEC, University of Geneva and HEC, University of Lausanne—both in Switzerland—respectively. She received her PhD in Organization Management from Rutgers University. Prior to joining academia, she was an IT analyst and human resource specialist for Accenture.
Education
Rutgers Business School
PhD
Organization Management
H.E.C. (Business School), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
MA
International Management
H.E.C. (Business School), University of Geneva, Switzerland.
BA
Organization Management
Select Accomplishments
Fred J. Springer Endowed Chair in Business Leadership
Villanova School of Business, Villanova University
Links
Select Media Appearances
In 2023, Women's Gains in Corporate C-Suites Were Reversed
Marketplace
2024-04-04
Corinne Post, chair in business leadership at Villanova University, said it takes more than a few promotions to sustain change at a company. "Are our processes fair, what are the biases that exist, how do we eradicate them? All that stuff is really hard change-management work," she said.
Research Grants
"Leveraging Thought Diversity," Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program.
National Science Foundation
February 2009 – February 2011. Co-PI with Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick. Collaborative Proposal Rutgers University – Lehigh University.
Select Academic Articles
What Changes after Women Enter Top Management Teams? A Gender-Based Model of Strategic Renewal
Academy of Management Journal VOL. 65, NO. 1Corinne Post, Boris Lokshin and Christophe Boone
2022-02-16
The question of what changes when women enter upper-echelons teams has long frustrated upper echelons and gender researchers. We build on the dynamic strategic renewal literature, combine it with upper echelons theory insights, and integrate knowledge about female executives’ career strategies to theorize how and when female appointments into top management teams (TMTs) cause firms to change their approach to knowledge-related strategic renewal.
