Corey Phelps

Corey Phelps is an Assistant Professor and Neal & Jan Dempsey Faculty Fellow in the Management and Organization Department at The Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Dr. Phelps’s current research focuses on understanding how companies use strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and minority equity investments in start-up firms to enhance their performance. portion of this research was funded by the National Science Foundation (SES-0521839). His research has appeared or is forthcoming in in Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Advances in Strategic Management. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management's TIM Division and is currently on the the editorial boards of Organization Science and the Journal of Business Venturing and is a past member of the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal. Dr. Phelps received the Academy of Management Technology and Innovation Management Division’s Best Dissertation Award and The State Farm Companies Foundation Dissertation Award. He teaches courses in strategic management in the undergraduate, MBA, PhD and executive education programs at UW. Professor Phelps was recently voted Evening MBA Program Professor of the Year. In 2008 he received the Wells Fargo Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Foster School of Business and was a finalist (1 of 20) for the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award. His other teaching awards include the Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Core Courses and numerous "Professor of the Quarter" awards. Read a recent article and interview with me about my alliance network research »Read a recent CFO Magazine cover story related to my research on acquisitions »