Anna McKean

Education: B.S., Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management; M.S., Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management; Ph.D. Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

Anna McKean is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at Darden. Her research focuses on understanding how a firm’s values and stakeholders inform its prosocial actions. In particular, she looks at how and why companies engage in – and backtrack from – contested sociopolitical issues. She looks at how an organization’s patterns of behavior and stakeholders’ values predict sociopolitical involvement, and how stakeholders respond to such action. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as Strategic Management Review. 

Professor McKean completed a joint PhD in Management & Organizations and Sociology at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Darden, she was a post-doctoral fellow for the University of Utah’s Goff Strategic Leadership Institute. She teaches the core Strategy course and an elective on Strategic Analysis and Consulting in the full-time MBA program.