Rate My Professor Lerong He

Lerong He serves as Dean and Professor of Management in the School of Business at the State University of New York College at Geneseo since July 2023. She holds a Ph.D. in Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2005), an M.A. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (2000), and a B.S. in Business Administration from the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (1997). Prior to her current role, He spent 15 years at SUNY Brockport, progressing from Assistant Professor of Management (2008-2013) to Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Business Administration (2013-2019), and then Associate Dean and Professor of Management (2019-2023), during which she led a successful AACSB reaccreditation in 2023 and oversaw development of an online business administration degree completion program, MBA program, accelerated 4+1 MBA pathways, and concentrations in business analytics and human resource management. Earlier positions include Assistant Professor of Management at Niagara University (2006-2008) and Assistant Professor of Business at West Chester University of Pennsylvania (2005-2006). She holds current affiliated professor and doctoral supervisor roles at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (2023-present) and Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics (2024-2027), and previously at Fuzhou University (2015-2023), with visiting appointments at AIN Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Rochester (2017), and National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (2014).

Lerong He's research interests encompass corporate governance, strategic leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainability, reflected in over 40 publications in top-tier journals. Key works include 'Executive compensation and corporate governance in China' (Journal of Corporate Finance, 2011, 844 citations), 'Firm performance and boardroom gender diversity: A quantile regression approach' (Journal of Business Research, 2017, 609 citations), 'Do founders matter? A study of executive compensation, governance structure and firm performance' (Journal of Business Venturing, 2008, 336 citations), 'Business Group Affiliation and Firm Responses to Corporate Governance Reform in India: Effects of Structural and Situated Attention' (Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2025), 'Cost of Vagueness: Stockholders’ Responses to Firms’ ESG Information' (Journal of Business Ethics, 2025), and 'Corporate Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: An Integrated Framework of Willingness and Ability' (Asian Business & Management, 2024). Her achievements include the 2020 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 55th Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (2024) for 'Social Media Disclosure and Stock Price Synchronicity,' Best Reviewer of the Year for Corporate Governance: An International Review (2017), and Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award (2013) for 'IPO Lockups, Founder Power, and Executive Compensation.' He is Co-Editor of Management Research Review (2016-present), serves on editorial review boards for Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2014-present), Journal of Management & Governance (2020-present), and Corporate Governance: An International Review (2018-2025), and holds the position of Executive Secretary & Treasurer for the International Association for Chinese Management Research (2017-present).