Our Faculty Members
Bobby Banerjee
Bobby Banerjee is Professor of Management at Bayes Business School. Bobby’s primary research interests are in the areas of (un)sustainability, climate change, decolonization, inequality, corporate social irresponsibility, global governance, and Indigenous ecology. His current research focuses on decolonization and resistance movements in the extractives industries.
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Nick Bacon
Nicolas Bacon is Professor in Human Resource Management at Bayes Business School. His research explores the impact of human resource management practices on organisational performance and employee outcomes in a wide variety of settings including manufacturing firms, unionised workplaces, small firms, medium-sized enterprises, private equity-owned firms and the public sector. Professor Bacon has published 50 academic articles in learned journals as well as numerous book chapters and edited the Industrial Relations Journal 2004-2008.
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Andrew Baughen
Andrew is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School and a Visiting Lecturer in Ethical Decision Making for Business. He is also Anglican Chaplain at City, University of London and Associate Minister at St Mary Woolnoth in Lombard Street. Having worked as a management consultant in banking strategy and then as a parish priest in central London, Andrew continues to work at the intersection of business and theology. He is researching the difference between soul-full and soul-less organisations and how worldview shapes the way we see our work and make decisions. He has created a tool that maps all the types of value we generate as individuals and together as an organisation. He is currently working on a book celebrating the wider value of our work for the greater good.
Daniel Beunza
Daniel Beunza is Professor of Management at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Bayes Business School. Beunza's research explores the ways in which social relations and technology shape financial value. Beunza’s book, Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room won the 2020 EGOS and George Terry best book award. Beunza obtained his PhD from New York University, and has previously taught at Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Copenhagen Business School. His research has been published in Organization Science, Organization Studies and Economy and Society.
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Itziar Castello-Molina
Itziar Castello is Reader in Sustainability and Digital Economy at Bayes Business School. Itziar’s research interest intersects sustainability and digitalization. She looks at how organizations and entrepreneurs engage with their stakeholders on global challenges such as climate change, plastic pollution. She is specially interested on the role of emotions in online engagement and how emotions can be used to mobilize change. She also studies stakeholder engagement and governance in multilateral environmental negotiations. Itziar frequently works with firms, NGOs and social enterprises to define their engagement strategies and narratives. Amongst others, her research appears in the Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Business & Society and the Journal of Business Ethics. Her research was nominated at the Financial Times as 47th out of 100 for significant societal contribution in management from 2015 to 2019. Her research was finalist at the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award. Front runner at the ONE- SIM Award in the Academy of Management for best outreach activities based on a published paper in 2020; Won the OMT Division Best Paper on Entrepreneurship Award in 2015 at Academy of Management Annual Conference. She is an Associate Editor of Business & Society and serves on several editorial boards of management and organisation studies journals.
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Jean-Pascal Gond
Jean-Pascal Gond is the Director of the ETHOS Centre for Responsible Enterprise and a Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Bayes Business School. His current research projects include the roles of standards and metrics in the institutionalisation of CSR in the financial marketplace and in corporations. His research in economic sociology is concerned with the influence of theory on managerial practice, the governance of self-regulation, and the interplay of society’s commodification and markets’ socialisation.
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Susan Hill
Susan Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School. She researches innovative, entrepreneurial and other adaptive behaviour (or the lack thereof) in organisations. Her research is increasingly set in the context of the natural resource crisis. Susan’s current research projects include interdisciplinary research (with marine scientists) into business owners' responses to oceanic ecosystem changes and experimental research on emotional responses to imagery in responsible investment decision-making. Susan’s PhD is in Strategic and International Management from the London Business School. Prior to entering academia, Susan worked for a number of years in corporate venturing (in a renewable energy unit) and human resources management in South Africa.
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Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Anirban Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Marketing at Bayes Business School. His research examines the interplay between consumers’ lay beliefs, emotions, and self-regulatory decisions, with substantive interests including food-related decision making, field experimentation with policy implications, and subjective wellbeing. Anirban is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Associate Provost (Teaching and Learning) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Nettra Pan
Nettra Pan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Bayes Business School. At Bayes, Nettra studies and teaches purpose-driven innovation and entrepreneurship; the process through which companies, individuals and teams discover, build and distribute products and services that provide personal meaning. Her teaching favors an interactive and experiential approach, pairing evidence-based startup insights with practical, hands-on exercises and voices from the field. Her research, published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, explains how founder and investor cognition affects opportunities pursued, new venture identity and alternative metrics of performance. In the past, Nettra worked with for-profit and non-profit organizations to design and improve initiatives addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Recently, Nettra has begun studying how creative entrepreneurs use web3 technologies to create, share and preserve critical knowledge, organize around socio-political visions and financially support their craft.
Marton Racz
Marton is a postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Ethics, Sustainability, and Engagement unit at Bayes. He received his PhD from the University of Leicester in 2017. His doctoral thesis explored the meanings and practices of criticality in a business school in the UK. Building on this, his research currently focuses on the organisation of higher education; on innovative ways of educating management students for ethics, responsibility, and reflexivity; and on the roles management academics’ organisational practices play in achieving this goal.
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André Spicer
André Spicer is Dean of Bayes Business School, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the founding director of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Bayes. He is an expert in the areas of Organisational Behaviour, Leadership, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Prior to joining Bayes, André was a Professor of Organisation Studies at the University of Warwick. He has also been a visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck, University of Paris Dauphine, Lund University, the Central European University, University of St Gallen, Hanken School of Economics, and the University of Sydney. Professor Spicer was educated at the University of Otago and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Professor Spicer has done work on organisational power and politics, organisational culture, employee identity, the creation of new organisational forms, space and architecture plays at work and leadership. His work looks at a wide range of settings including knowledge intensive firms, financial institutions, seaports, universities, libraries, media organisations, and new social movements.
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Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott is a Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at Bayes Business School. He joined Bayes Business School in 2014 having been a Research Professor in Organisation Studies at Cardiff Business School. He has previously held professorial appointments at Cambridge (Judge Business School) and UMIST (now Manchester Business School) and visiting appointments at Copenhagen Business School, University of Sydney, and Uppsala University. Hugh’s research interests span the sub-fields of management organisation studies. He is particularly interested in the development and application of management theory by drawing upon the resources of critical social science. Substantively, his research has contributed to the areas of professionalisation, teamwork, regulation, business ethics, management learning, accounting policy and practice, organisational culture, financialisation, and the management of higher education. Most recently, he has been collaborating with Jeroen Veldman, senior research fellow at Bayes, in study of comparative models of corporate governance: The Modern Corporation.