Dr. Laura Erskine

Assistant Professor

Contact Information:

Campus Box 5580
College of Business
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-5580

Phone:

(309) 438-2276

Email:

Office Hours:

Office:

COB 203

Mon:

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Wed:

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Degree Information:

• Ph.D., University of Southern California
• M.B.A., University of Western Ontario
• B. A., McGill University

Profile:

Laura received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Her teaching interests are in the area of organizational behavior and leadership.

Laura’s research interests include the meaning of relational distance in leader-follower relationships, leadership in virtual settings, and emergent leadership in the context of collective action. She has presented her research at several national and regional conferences and is actively involved with the Network of Leadership Scholars within the Academy of Management. She also is collaborating with colleagues at several universities on a variety of projects that examine relational distance in different contexts.

During Laura’s MBA program, she wrote several Organizational Behavior cases and participated in the LEADER project where she taught introductory business courses in both Russia and the Ukraine. Following her MBA studies, she worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney and in a variety of marketing and strategy roles at Disney Online and FirstLook.com. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Laura participated in the creation of Eureka Review, a Los Angeles-based SAT tutoring company.