Nancy Rothbard
Associate Professor of Management
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2016 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
215.898.1102
nrothbard@wharton.upenn.edu

Office Hours:
by appointment

Bio

Professor Nancy Rothbard received her A.B. from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Michigan.  She is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.  Prior to joining the faculty at Wharton, she was on faculty at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.  Professor Rothbard’s research focuses on the interplay between emotions and engagement in multiple roles.  Specifically, she explores how people’s emotional responses to one role or task affect their subsequent engagement in another role or task.  She has examined these questions in the context of work and family roles and in the context of multiple tasks that people perform within the work role.  Her work has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology.  In addition to her academic articles, Professor Rothbard has authored several Harvard Business School case studies.  Her teaching cases touch on the topics of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational change.  Professor Rothbard received the 2000 Likert Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan.  She is also the recipient of the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Award for Teaching Excellence. 

Curriculum Vitae

• Current C.V.

Publications

Phillips, Katherine W., Rothbard, Nancy P., & Dumas, Tracy L. Getting to know you? Disclosure, status, and interpersonal closeness in diverse environments (Forthcoming, Academy of Management Review).

Dokko, Gina, Wilk, Steffanie, & Rothbard, Nancy.  Unpacking prior experience: How career history affects individual performance. (in press, Organization Science). Download

Rothbard, Nancy P., & Dumas, Tracy L. 2006. “Research Perspectives.” In Jones, F., Burke, R., & Westman, M. (Eds.) Managing the Work-Home Interface: A Psychological Perspective. Psychology Press. Download

Rothbard, Nancy P., Phillips, Katherine, W., & Dumas, Tracy L. 2005.  Managing multiple roles: Work-family policies and individuals' desires for segmentation.  Organization Science, 16, 243-258. Download

Edwards, Jeffrey R., & Rothbard, Nancy P.  2004. An integrated theoretical model of stress, coping, & well-being between work and family. In E. E. Kossek & S. J. Lambert (Eds), Work and Life Integration: Organizational Cultural and Psychological Perspectives in a Global World.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Download.

Rothbard, Nancy P., & Edwards, Jeffrey R. 2003.  Investment in work and family roles: A test of identity and utilitarian motives. Personnel Psychology, 56, 699-730.  Download

Rothbard, Nancy P. 2001. Enriching or Depleting? The dynamics of engagement in work and family roles. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46: 655-684. Download