Joel Carnevale

Associate Professor of Management
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Joel Carnevale is an Associate Professor of Management at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. His current research interests include leadership, creative reputations, and behavioral ethics. Dr. Carnevale's research articles have appeared in several notable academic journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others. In addition, his work has appeared in popular media outlets including Bloomberg News, Fast Company, Business Insider, WebMD, Entrepreneur, and TIME. He is the Director of Outreach for the Network of Leadership Scholars, an Entrepreneur Leadership Network Contributor at Entrepreneur Media, and a former Associate Editor of Journal of Business Ethics (2022-2024) and Journal of Business Research (2019-2022). Professor Carnevale is the recipient of numerous awards including the Whitman Research Fellowship (2023-2025) and Guttag Junior Faculty Award (2021-2023) from the Whitman School of Management. He earned a B.S. in Economics and MBA from Radford University, and a Ph.D. in management, focused on Organizational Studies, Strategy and Change from the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University.
His current teaching interests are in the areas of organizational behavior, business ethics, leadership, and general management topics. He currently teaches courses on foundations of management.
His research focuses on leadership, creativity, reputation, and behavioral ethics.