Deborah Good
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Contact

2102 Sennott Square
debgood@katz.pitt.edu
412-648-1597

Profile

Debbie Good leads the Pitt Business undergraduate programs in collaboration with the staff units, faculty area directors, undergraduate program committee, and governing faculty. Her role is to further enhance the program’s quality and reputation, including curriculum innovation and new initiatives for business and non-business majors.

Good also teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate courses in human resource management, business communication, sports management, organizational behavior, and business ethics.  In the MBA program and Public Health Post Doc Micro-Credential Program, she teaches interpersonal skills, organizational behavior and human resource management.  For the past several years, she has served as the coordinator of the undergraduate human resource major, sports management certificate program, and business communication program and manages teaching assignments for the Organizations and Entrepreneurship interest group.

In addition to teaching, Good holds a number of advisory roles in different student and curriculum areas within the Undergraduate Programs.  She is faculty advisor for the Human Resource Club, Women in Business (WIB)  and Pitt’s WISE (Women in Sports and Events) chapter.  She also serves on a number of business school and University committees, including the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Programs.

Good has extensive curriculum development experience, creating courses in business communication, training, human resource technology and analytics and sports management.  She also developed the Pitt Business sports management certificate, the graduate micro-credential certificate in Leading People, and the online doctoral course on business implementation for the Doctor of Clinical Science in Occupational Therapy degree.

Her current research focuses on microaggressions in university and business settings and the assessment and evaluation of student learning outcomes in experienced-based learning situations. Her work on these topics has appeared in both journals and conferences over the past few years.

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate

  • Human Resources Staffing
  • Training and Development
  • Compensation and Performance Administration
  • Sports Management
  • Sports Management Project Capstone
  • Leadership Program Managerial Ethics and Stakeholder Management
  • Human Resource Analytics
  • Fundamentals of Business Communication
  • Managing Diversity in Organizations
  • Issues in Career Management

MBA Interpersonal Skills for Managers

  • Interpersonal Skills for Managers
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Human Resources for Competitive Advantage

Awards and Honors

Good has won various teaching and service awards including the Doris & Douglas Bernstein Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence, Pitt Business 25@25, Best Teaching in Human Resource Management major award, and Pitt Business Student Impact Award.

Professional Service and Activities

  • ABSEL (Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning): Good serves on the ABSEL Board of Directors as Past President and Program Chair
  • WISE (Women in Sports and Events): Good is a member of the Pittsburgh chapter and a founding member of the Pitt Student WISE chapter.
  • Member PHRA (Pittsburgh Human Resource Association) and SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management): Good serves as the liaison between PHRA/SHRM and CBA human resource management majors for certification activities.

Degrees

  • PhD in Business Administration, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
  • MBA, Youngstown State University
  • BA in English, The Pennsylvania State University

Recent Publications

Good, Deborah, Ziaukas, Timothy, McCarrick, Christopher & Butter, Robert.  “Scaling Experiential Learning Projects:  Meeting Sourcing and Outcome Challenges”, in Developments in Business Simulations & Experiential Learning, Volume 50, 2023.

Jones, Raymond, Nair, Nisha, & Good, Deborah. “Thread International:  Attempting a Takeback Program and Its Sustainability Challenges” in Chapter 3, Sustainability Strategy:  A Systems Approach, 2023.

Davis, Tom, Good, Deborah, & Maryott, Kiersten.  “Roadmap to the Future:  An Undergraduate Business Program Redesign”, in Developments in Business Simulations & Experiential Learning,

Volume 49, 2022.  Best Paper Nominee.

Nair, Nisha & Good, Deborah.  “Microaggressions and Coping with Linkages for Mentoring”, in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Special Edition, May 2021.

Davis, Tom, Good, Deborah, & Maryott, Kiersten.  “The Great Rotation:  Experience-Based Learning in Business Education at a Distance 2020”, in Developments in Business Simulations & Experiential Learning, Volume 48, 2021.  Best Paper Recipient.

Good, Deborah, Petrie-Wyman, Jennifer, Jones, Ray, Beaman, Joe & Onosu, Gloria. “Developing an Early Internship Program and Assessment Model: The Emerging Ethical Leaders Internship Program”, in Developments in Business Simulation & Experiential Learning, Volume 47, 2020.

Nair, Nisha, Good, Deborah Cain, Murrell, Audrey J..  “Microaggression Experiences of Different Marginalized Identities.”, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:  An International Journal, Volume 38(8), 2019.

Nair, Nisha and Good, Deborah.  “Diversity in the Classroom:  Microaggressions and Their Impact” in Diversity Across the Disciplines:  Research on People, Policy, Process and Paradigm, Information Age Publishing, November 2019 publication.

Center Affiliation

David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership

Academic Area

Organizations and Entrepreneurship

Personal Interests

Good is a big sports fan with a diehard Pittsburgher’s interest in the Steelers, Penguins, and Pirates.