Mary Grace Neville
Associate Professor of Business
Dr. Mary Grace Neville studies and teaches business behaviors and relationships that create world benefit. She explores business success as measured by the creation of well-being, environmental care, and organizations' long-term financial stability.
Neville's research focuses on positive change leadership, ways in which individuals and small groups do what they do. She believes positive actions shape larger social patterns that make a difference in the world over time. Hence, her research explores positive intersection of business and society.
Research topics include conscientious capitalism, humanness in organizations, non-economic forms of wealth, interconnectedness, spirit in business, transformational cooperation, and applied methodologies such as appreciative inquiry and action research.
Teaching interests include applied ethical and socially responsible business management, organizational change, group process, leadership skills, and experiential pedagogy.
Prior to her work at Southwestern, Neville was a manager in the strategic services practice of a global management consulting firm. Before consulting, she was on the start-up team for a $52 million public aquarium, and served as the executive director of a state level non-profit agency.
Courses: Fall 2009
Seduced by Money: the Good/Bad
Foundations of Business I
Business Ethics & Social Resp
Paideia Seminar 3A
Research
Humanism in business environment
"Good" business
Also- rooted in action research,positive psychology, and systems thinking (unusual for business). Therefore, as a social scientist, business as entities comprised of individuals and fully embedded in communities and society becomes my laboratory.
Publications
"Dialogic Learning" in Journal of Management Education
