BUSB 5015
Kelly See's current research focuses on the utilization of external input or advice. She is particularly interested in how psychological and organizational contextual factors (such as uncertainty, power, and organizational structure) affect the flow of employee input or advice through organizational hierarchies, as well as the downstream consequences of advice utilization for fairness, innovation, and corporate sustainability. A secondary area of research concerns the use of extreme goals in organizations. Her work appears in leading business and disciplinary journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Operations Research, as well as in edited scholarly books. Her research has won several awards and has been covered in various media outlets, such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, FOX News, and INC.
Before joining the University of Colorado Denver, Professor See was a faculty member of the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also worked extensively with executives as a feedback coach and instructor in the Leadership Program at Duke University. Before her academic career, she worked in Washington, DC, as a consultant in the private sector and a research analyst at an environmental policy think tank.
Education
PhD, Duke University
BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of expertise
Advice Seeking, Giving, and Taking
Employee Input and Voice
Hierarchical Structure and Power
Extreme Goals
Publications
Please refer to Google Scholar for all publications and SSRN for select working papers.
Awards and honors
Nominee, Outstanding Teaching Award, CU Denver Business School, 2023 & 2024
CIBER Summer Faculty Grant, 2022-2023
Winner, Best Paper Award, Irish Academy of Management, Leadership & OB Division, 2022
Fellow, Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative, CU Denver, 2018-2023
Research Grant, Center for Sustainable Business, NYU Stern School of Business, 2018
Finalist, Best Paper Award, Academy of Management TIM Division, 2014
Winner, Best Published Article, Academy of Management Review, 2012
Runner-up, Outstanding OB Publication, Academy of Management, 2011
Winner, Best Empirical or Theoretical Paper, Academy of Management CM Division, 2010
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management OB Division, 2014 & 2010
Undergraduate Dean's (NYU) notice of outstanding teaching ratings, F2011; F2012; F2013
Nominee, NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, F2006
Invited Fellow, Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, August 2001
