Melanie Prengler
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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Education: B.A., Texas A&M University; M.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D., Mays School of Business, Texas A&M University
Melanie Prengler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
She uses a qualitative approach to understand how people use their work to make a meaningful difference in organizations and society. Her research has been published in journals like Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and received numerous awards, including a 2023 Responsible Research in Business and Management Award, 2021 AOM MOC Division's Best Student-Led Paper award, a Mays Innovation Research Center grant, and her dissertation was recognized as a finalist in the 2021 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition.
At Darden, Professor Prengler teaches Talent Trailblazers, Leading Teams, and Leadership and Organizations.
Professor Prengler received her Ph.D. in Management from the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University.