Jia (Jasmine) Hu

Jia (Jasmine) Hu is a Full Professor of Management and Denman Scholar at the Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University. Jasmine also coordinates the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources (OBHR) PhD program at Fisher. Previously, Jasmine served on the faculty of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she was named as a J. Donnelly Fellow in Participatory Management. Jasmine received her Ph.D. with concentrations in OBHR from University of Illinois at Chicago. Jasmine’s primary research interests focus on understanding prosocial leadership and teams. Her research is driven by fundamental questions facing modern organizations: What prosocial leadership qualities and behaviors help improve teams’ long-term effectiveness? And why, how, and when do they have a prosocial impact? Jasmine's work has appeared in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP), Personnel Psychology (PPsych), Leadership Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review. Her research and insights have also been mentioned in numerous media outlets, such as the Forbes, Fortune, Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and The U.S. Chamber of Commerce. According to a comprehensive analysis of 3,190 authors whose leadership research was published in top ten management journals from 1990 to 2017 (Zhao & Li, 2019, Leadership Quarterly), Jasmine ranks among the top 10 most productive leadership scholars in the field of Organizational Behavior between 2011 and 2017. Jasmine currently serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology, a Deputy Editor of Management and Organizational Review, and on the editorial boards of several major management journals including AMJ, OBHDP, PPsych, Journal of Management, Human Relations, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Jasmine's primary teaching responsibility includes the Leadership core course for the full-time MBA program, Leadership Legacy course for the Dean’s leadership academy program, and advanced seminars for the OBHR PhD program. Jasmine was named as a “Best Reviewer of the Year” by PPsych in 2019 and a “Best 40 under 40 Professor” by Poets and Quants in 2021. In terms of consulting and applied experiences, Jasmine served as a consultant for Accenture (China) and McKinsey & Company (US) and conducted a number of field research in various companies from different industries and cultural settings. Jasmine and her husband are proud parents of three young children.