David Gaddis Ross

David Gaddis Ross

  • R. Perry Frankland Professor
  • Full Professor

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Management Department
  • Stuzin Hall 223

David Gaddis Ross is the R. Perry Frankland Professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration. Before that, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Columbia Business School. He has two streams of research: (1) organizational strategy and governance and (2) the foundations of strategy, including topics like differentiation and resource acquisition. His theoretical work often makes use of mathematical modeling.

Professor Ross’s research has been featured many times in the media, including in outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, The McKinsey Quarterly, Forbes, Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Businessweek, The Sunday Times, and The Economist.

He teaches courses on strategy and entrepreneurship in the University of Florida’s graduate business programs, where he has won several awards for teaching. He also has taught for years in executive training programs on behalf of organizations like Accenture, Columbia Business School, KPMG, and Oliver Wyman.

Professor Ross received a Ph.D. in economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business, an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and a B.S. in computer-science/mathematics and economics from Binghamton University.

Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for over a decade on Wall Street, where he advised governments and firms on mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, privatization, and cross-border tax and accounting arbitrage. He has extensive experience applying quantitative methods to solving real business problems and explaining technical subjects to non-technical audiences.

Expertise and interest areas

  • Applied Game Theory
  • Business Policy and Strategy
  • Compensation
  • Corporate Governance
  • Entrepreneurship

News

Courses taught

  • Advanced DBA Research (MAN7978)
  • DBA Doctoral Dissertation/Defense (MAN7985)
  • Global Strategic Management (MAN6636)
  • Global Strategic Management (MAN6637)
  • Individual Work in Management (MAN6905)
  • Special Topics (ENT6930)
  • Special Topics (MAN6930)
  • Strategy and Disruption in Technology Industries (ENT6621)

Education

  • PhD, Stern Business School, 2007

Honors and awards

  • EMBA23 Outstanding Faculty Award — 2023
  • Research Promotion Initiative — 2023
  • First Place of the Wharton People Analytics White Paper Competition University of Pennsylvania Wharton — 2021

PhD students advised

  • Hanna Vance — 2023 — Current
  • Gannon — 2024 — 2025
  • Sana Zafar — 2022 — 2024
  • Jarrod Humphrey — Unknown — 2023
  • Jarrod Holmes Humphrey — 2021 — 2022
  • Moonsik Shin — 2020 — 2022

Professional service

  • Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Perspectives — 2025 to Present
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Review — 2017 to Present
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Strategic Management Journal — 2024 to Present
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Strategy Science — 2015 to Present
  • Mentor, Academy of Management Annual Meeting STR Junior Faculty Paper Development Workshop — 2024
  • Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal — 2020 to 2023
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Strategic Management Journal — 2015 to 2020

Case publications

  • AfreecaTV: The Godfather of Streaming
    • Status: Published
    • Published Year: 2020
    • Author: David Ross

Conference proceeding publications

  • There Are No Colorblind Models in a Colorful World: How to Successfully Apply a People Analytics Tool to Build Equitable Workplaces
    • Status: Published
    • Published Year: 2021
    • Authors: David Anderson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir, David Ross

Journal article publications

  • Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Strategic Management Journal
    • Published Year: 2023
    • Authors: Victor Jarosiewicz, David Ross
  • Female CEOs and the compensation of other top managers
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
    • Published Year: 2022
    • Authors: Cristian Dezső, Yixuan Li, David Ross
  • Long-Tenured Independent Directors and Firm Performance
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Strategic Management Journal
    • Published Year: 2022
    • Authors: Stefano Bonini, Justin Deng, Mascia Ferrari, Kose John, David Ross

Magazine/trade publication publications

  • Using People Analytics to Build an Equitable Workplace
    • Status: Published
    • Published Year: 2022
    • Authors: David Anderson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir, David Ross