John Busenbark
- Mary Jo and Richard M. Kovacevich Associate Professor of Management & Organization
- Management & Organization
Biography
John R. Busenbark is the Mary Jo and Richard M. Kovacevich Associate Professor of Management & Organization in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and he received an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
John's primary research interests include corporate governance and research methods. Within corporate governance, John studies behavioral capital markets, the information economics of voluntary disclosure, and boards of directors, among other related topics. John's research methods interests include endogeneity, non-spherical disturbances, model specification, and construct operationalization.
In addition to his research, John is an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Journal. He is also an Editor at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes for "Politics, ideology, and partisanship in the workplace" content. John is (or has been) on the Editorial Review Boards for Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Organizational Research Methods.
Related News & Stories

Consumer Behavior
Rushing a major strategy announcement can be a mistake for new CEOs
A new study by management professor John Busenbark introduces a concept called “new CEO strategic action speed,” which represents the number of days a new chief executive takes to announce the firm’s first large-scale strategic action.

Features
Finding the Fairness Formula
Mendoza researchers say that in business and in life, how well you fare has a lot to do with how well you’re fair.