Marne Arthaud-Day holds the von Waaden Business Administration professorship at Kansas State University, where she teaches strategic management and international business and coaches the university’s MBA case competition team. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management and Organization Theory, with a minor in Organizational Behavior, from Indiana University, as well as an MBA in International Business from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Her research examines how values and attitudes shape strategic decision-making, individual behaviour, and organisational outcomes, with particular attention to corporate governance, stakeholder alignment, managerial discretion, and institutional influences. Her work spans national, organisational, group, and individual levels of analysis. Her current research interests include corporate values and firm performance, CEO turnover and executive discretion, entrepreneurial orientation in dynamic environments, and the role of values and attitudes in career choice, satisfaction, and success.