Renee Chu-Jacoby
Renee Chu-Jacoby
Assistant Professor
Department
College of Business & Information Systems
Education
D.B.A., Management (Organizational Behavior and Human Resources), DePaul University
M.B.A., Strategy and Operations, California State University, Fresno
B.B.A., Management (Organizational Leadership), Fresno Pacific University
Biography
Dr. Renee Chu-Jacoby is an Assistant Professor of Management whose work joins rigorous scholarship with organizational practice. Her research, published in leading management and organizational psychology journals, asks how organizations create, or constrain, opportunity for the people within and around them. That question is rooted in two decades of founding and advising small businesses and nonprofits, where she saw how strategy and culture shape who thrives. Nearly a decade in graduate business education sharpened that view. She taught management, helped lead MBA and EMBA programs, and advised hundreds of students, many of them first-generation students and working professionals. She teaches the way she researches, starting with real organizations and real people. In her view, business education should open doors, not guard them.
Contact
Office Location: East Hall
Phone: (605) 256-5165
Email
- Strategic management and business policy, including the MBA strategy capstone
- Organizational behavior and leadership
- Strategic human resource management
- International management
- Entrepreneurship and new venture creation
- Social enterprise and nonprofit management
- Experiential learning through client-based consulting projects, internships, and service-learning
- Weight-based mistreatment at work and its intersection with gender and race
- Workplace equity and discrimination
- Generative AI, trust, and shared cognition in virtual teams
- Social entrepreneurship and strategies for economic development
- High-impact applied teaching pedagogy, including service-learning
- Meta-analytic modeling of technology adoption
- California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Fellow, 2021
- Dean’s Scholarship, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, 2019, 2020
- MBA with Honors Distinction, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno, 2017
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Microcredential in Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning, Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), 2021
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Alkhwaldi, A. (PI), Chu-Jacoby, R. (Co-PI), Tech, D. (Co-PI), Basyal, G. P. (Co-PI), & Sandall, D. (Co-PI). (2026). From tool to teammate: How generative AI reshapes trust, shared cognition, and effectiveness in virtual teams. Faculty Research Initiative, Dakota State University. $5,000.
- Lemmon, G., Jensen, J. M., Kuljanin, G., & Chu-Jacoby, R. (2025). A mixed-method exploratory study of weight-based mistreatment at work. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98(1), e12550. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12550
- Lemmon, G., Jensen, J. M., Kuljanin, G., Taylor, K. P., & Chu-Jacoby, R. (2025). A commentary on Percival Carter and Obenauer (2025): Applying their framework to weight-based discrimination to demonstrate its unsung utility. Group & Organization Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011251414793
- Sahatjian, Z., Olson-Buchanan, J. B., Chu-Jacoby, R., & MacDougall, A. E. (2025). Exploring student perceptions and individual factors shaping student success in virtual and in-person service-learning business courses. Journal of Experiential Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259251362149
- Bommer, W., Milevoj, E., Rana, S., & Chu-Jacoby, R. (2026, November 15–17). Herding CAATTs: A meta-analytically derived model of the adoption of computer-assisted audit techniques and tools (CAATTs) [Paper presentation]. 35th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Waikoloa, HI, United States.
Invited workshops:
- Chu-Jacoby, R. (2024–2025). Time management and productivity; Empowerment through delegation; Providing effective feedback [Workshop series]. Fresno County and Kings County Public Health Departments, CA.
- Chu-Jacoby, R. (2017, June). How to retool your business for social impact [Workshop]. #SOENT17 Summit on Social Enterprise, Fresno, CA.