College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Harvard Graduate School of Business, 1997
A.B., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1982

Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Starting Aug 2009), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009-2011
Assistant Professor of Management, Rice University, 1996-2001

Love, E., Kraatz, M. 2009. Character, Conformity, or the Bottom Line: How and Why Downsizing Affected Corporate Reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 52: 314-335

Love, E., Cebon, P. 2008. Meanings on Multiple Levels: Organizational Culture and Diffusion in Institutionalized Environments. Journal of Management Studies, 45: 239-267

Love, E., Nohria, N. 2005. Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-1993. Strategic Management Journal, 26: 1087-1108

Teaches or has taught courses on organizational behavior, managing innovation, organizational change, leadership, and entrepreneurial management.

Research interests: Institutional Theory, Organizational stratification (Reputation and Status processes), Organizational restructuring, Organizational change