Jessica A. Kennedy

Jessica Kennedy is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. Her research lies at the intersection of three topics: power and status, ethical behavior, and gender. She is especially interested in the interplay of ethical values and career outcomes.

Professor Kennedy has published in outlets such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research in Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Business Ethics Quarterly. She is on the Editorial Board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to entering academia, she worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.