Laurie Levesque, PhD

Biography

Dr. Laurie Levesque’s research interests fall into two areas, one of which is developing teaching tools, instructional cases, and classroom activities. The other is scholarship on employee voice and emergent processes such as new organizational roles, psychological contracts, and new hire socialization. These two streams intersect with her current work on classroom-as-organization simulations and the facilitation skills and approaches that enhance simulation as a learning methodology.

Professor Levesque recently published a book on Facilitating Simulations and edited a book of business teaching cases. Her articles have appeared in Management Teaching Review, The CASE Journal, The Case Research Journal, Simulation and Gaming, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Career Development International.

Professor Levesque previously served as the Program Director of the Master in Management and Organizational Leadership program. Prior to that she was Associate Dean overseeing the BSBA degree. She has led, co-led, or served on teams and task forces over her 24 years at Suffolk that resulted in new curricula and gen-ed requirements, enhanced course offerings, minors, co-curricular and career programming, new student organizations, and instructor professional development.

Honors and Recognitions

• 2021 Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management
• 2016 Sawyer Business School Dean’s Administrative Service Award
• 2016 Journey Leadership Awards: Faculty Club Advisor of the Year
• 2015 Student Government Association: Outstanding Business Faculty Member

Professional Activities

• Program Director, Master in Management and Organizational Leadership (2019-2022)
• President, Eastern Academy of Management (2018-2019)
• Alumni Advisory Board, AIESEC-Boston (2014-2020)

Recent Intellectual Contributions

Leigh, E. and Levesque, L.L. (2024). Facilitating Simulations. Teaching Methods in Business series, J. Forray, J. Leigh, & S. Wright (Eds.). UK: Edward Elgar Publishers.

Levesque, L.L. (Editor), (2024). People Management Skills in Practice: A case study collection; edited volume in series International Cases in Business and Management, G. Vega, & R. Edwards (series editors), UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Leigh, E. & Levesque, L.L. (2023). Frameworks for understanding the novice-to-expert growth of simulation facilitators. In Simulation and Gaming for Social and Environmental Transitions. Proceedings of ISAGA 2023 Conference.

Leigh, E. & Levesque, L.L. (2022). Reframing the Boundaries of Experiential Education Using Cynefin Domains. In Gaming, Simulation and Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities. ISAGA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Levesque, L.L. (2021). Trust in classroom-as-organization simulations: Parallel experiences of participants and facilitators, Simulation and Gaming.

Lam, C.F., Rees, L., Levesque, L.L., & Ornstein, S. (2018). Shooting from the hip: A habit perspective of voice. Academy of Management Review, 43(3): 1-19.

Cases and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Levesque, L.L. and O’Neill, R.M. (2025). Upset, yet loyal: Employee voice amidst unionization at Starbucks. The CASE Journal.

Levesque, L.L. (2024). Building assertiveness and listening skills using dysfunctional peer project scenarios. Organizational Management Journal.

O’Neill, R.M. and Levesque, L.L. (2025). Employee Support for Unionization at Starbucks? A Peer-Influence Negotiation. Management Teaching Review.

Chui, H. & Levesque, L.L. (2024). Employee Retention in a PR Firm: Generational Differences or Insufficient Incentives? (Case, Instructor Manual). In Levesque, L.L. (ed.), People management skills in practice: A case study collection. UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Kokoros, G.C. and Levesque, L.L. (2024). Trust and Communication Across Borders – Leadership Challenges at Ellume Health (Case and Instructor Manual). In People management skills in practice: A case study collection. UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Levesque, L.L. and Kokoros, G.C. (2024). Building A (New) Company Culture: Ma Reilly's Café. (Case and Instructor Manual). In Levesque, L.L. (ed.), People management skills in practice: A case study collection. UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Levesque, L.L., and Kilmer, J. (2020). Leasing a City Apartment (Negotiation Case), Published by the Dispute Resolution Research Center (U. of Michigan). 

Levesque, L.L. (2018) Student-Authored Ethics Vignettes: Giving Voice to Values All Semester. Management Teaching Review, 3(4), 331–345.