Assoc ProfessorJacob Eisenberg

Jacob Eisenberg is an Associate Professor at the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business in Dublin, Ireland, where he has been teaching on the school's top ranked programs: FT MBA, E-MBA, CEMS MIM and the MSc Business. Jacob earned his PhD in Social/Organizational Psychology at Colorado State University (USA) and his research and teaching interests are primarily related to Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management and Cross Cultural Management. Jacob has lectured in several countries, including Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Singapore and USA. Jacob's achievements as a lecturer were recognised when he received in 2007 the Annual UCD School of Business Best Graduate Teaching Award and with the 2020 College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. In 2021, Jacob joined a group of UCD colleagues who received the inaugural UCD Innovation Fellowship.

Jacob has worked on training and consulting projects with both public and private organizations, including IBM, Microsoft, ICON, Irish Prime minister's office and the UN and has supervised numerous graduate student teams who delivered consulting projects for various multinationals including IBM, Henkel, Oracle, HP, McDonalds, and Accenture. Jacob has held several high profile leadership positions, including a three-year terms as the Academic Director of the MSc Business Programs in UCD, the university's largest Masters program, which includes 10 different Masters programs and over 650 students. He served as Chair of the Cross-Cultural Management Faculty Group at the CEMS Global Alliance, whose Masters in International Management is ranked among the top Masters programs in the world. Jacob is an active member of the Academy of Management, where he served as Chair of the All-Academy International Theme Committee (ITC) and is a Past-Chair of the Management Education & Development Division (MED), one of Academy's ten largest divisions with around 2,000 members.

Jacob has been regularly presenting his work in leading international conferences, including the Annual Academy of Management meetings, and his research appeared in several journals including Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Human Performance, Academy of Management Learning & Education Journal and J. of Management Information Systems. He also authored several chapters in books published by leading publishers such as Elsevier, Sage and Emerald. In 2011, his paper on Cultural Intelligence won the Global Education Best Paper Award at the annual Academy of Management meeting. Jacob serves on the board of the top-ranked Journal of Organizational Behavior and Academy of Management Learning & Education Journal (AMLE) and has received the prestigious AMLE Editorial Board Best Reviewer Award for 2011. Jacob served the Editor in Chief for the AMLE 2013 Special Issue on Cross-Cultural Management Education & Learning, which received high publicity in the area.

Jacob is engaged in volunteer activities both within Ireland and internationally and has been serving as a Board member of the UCD Volunteers Overseas (UCD-based charity) since 2020.