Dear Colleagues,
The Palumbo-Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University invites applications for the following position within the Management and Marketing Department, beginning in Fall 2024. Here is the link for applications: Apply - Interfolio
Murrin Chair
Senior faculty holding associate or full professor rank who have a significant history of research accomplishment and impact are welcome to apply for the Thomas J. and Marie C. Murrin Chair in Global Competitiveness. The Murrin Chair includes a nine credit-hour teaching load per academic year as well as a discretionary fund to support research and travel. Applicants with expertise and interests in sustainability, along with CSR/ethics, entrepreneurship, and/or strategic management, are especially welcome. Responsibilities include scholarship, service and teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels.
Qualifications
•An earned Ph.D. in Management or a related field from an AACSB-accredited business school.
•Attained rank of associate or full professor plus a demonstrable record of research accomplishment and publication with an active pipeline.
•Committed to teaching excellence.
•A collegial and collaborative citizenship orientation committed to program development.
Desired Attributes
•Practitioner experience in the candidate's areas of primary or secondary interest.
•Experience with graduate teaching, online instruction and/or executive education.
•Interest in or experience with interdisciplinary scholarship.
Support
We offer a collegial environment, competitive salaries, easy access to the Pittsburgh business community and support for high-quality teaching. Specifically, the School offers a summer grant program (with priority given to junior faculty), ongoing funding for scholarship, plus research, teaching and service awards for our best faculty. We also subscribe to several research databases and offer research active faculty graduate student support. There are currently 11 named faculty positions in the School, 6 of which are rotating faculty fellowships aimed at recently tenured associate professors.
School and Department
The AACSB-accredited Palumbo-Donahue School of Business has approximately 1400 undergraduate and graduate students. The Management and Marketing Department supports several degree programs, including the B.S.B.A (department majors include entrepreneurship, management, and marketing). The department also support our PMBA (aimed at working adults) and the Full-Time MBA (which has a strong emphasis on sustainability and is ranked as a top "better world" MBA, currently #1 in the U.S.). The Department has 21 full-time faculty members including 9 tenured or tenure-track faculty focusing on disciplines within management. Over the past 3 academic years, department faculty members have published nearly 50 peer reviewed articles in leading outlets such as Academy of Management Perspectives, and Journal of Business Ethics. The Department is also home to 4 centers (i.e., in ethics, entrepreneurship, professional selling, and sustainable business innovation). For instance, the Center for excellence in Entrepreneurship hosts the annual Duquesne New Venture Challenge while the Viragh Institute for Ethics in Business produces an annual research-oriented book series (Business and Society 360) and is the home of Business and Society Review, a scholarly journal published by Wiley.
University
Duquesne is a comprehensive university with about 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information about the business school and university, see: www.duq.edu. Duquesne University is committed to attracting, retaining and developing a diverse faculty that reflects contemporary society, serves our academic mission and enriches our campus community. As a charter member of the Ohio, Western PA and West Virginia Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), we encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups and support dual-career couples. Motivated by its Catholic and Spiritan identity, Duquesne values equality of opportunity both as an educational institution and as an employer. Founded in 1878 by its sponsoring religious community, the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne University is Catholic in mission and ecumenical in spirit. Its Mission Statement commits the University to "serving God by serving students – through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity, and through service to the Church, the community, the nation and the world." Applicants for this position should describe how they might support and contribute to this mission.
Alternately, the successful candidate may possess any equivalent combination of experience and training, which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. This includes commitment to the University's values of diversity, equity and inclusion, and recognition of the importance of treating each individual with dignity and respect consistent with the University's Mission. Additionally, applicants must have demonstrated experience with, and understanding of, the broad diversity of the University community (students, faculty, staff and others).
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the University Community.
Ability and willingness to contribute actively to the mission of the University and to respect the Spiritan Catholic identity of Duquesne University. The mission is implemented through a commitment to academic excellence, a spirit of service, moral and spiritual values, sensitivity to world concerns, and an ecumenical campus community.
Thank you,
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Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa
Duquesne University
(646) 504-4442
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