Regina M. O'Neill, PhD, CPA

Biography

Dr. Regina O’Neill’s research interests are in mentoring, diversity, career development, and negotiations. She has published in a variety of journals including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Hospital Medicine, PLOS ONE, Journal of Management Development, Journal of Management Inquiry, Human Resources Development Quarterly, Human Resource Management Journal, Psychology & Marketing, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Gender in Management: An International Journal, Career Development International, International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring, European Journal of Training and Development, Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, Journal of Management Education, The Case Journal, Management Teaching Review, and Case Research Journal.

 

Professor O’Neill has served on a number of committees and task forces at Suffolk including the President’s Diversity Task Force, the President’s Athletics Review Committee, the Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, NEASC and AACSB Committees, the Faculty Governance Committee and the SBS Dean's Search Committee. Externally, she reviews for several journals and is an active community volunteer for adaptive sports including disabled rowers and cyclists.

Professor O’Neill received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan Business School, her MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, and her B.S. in Management from the University of Massachusetts. She is a licensed CPA and worked as an audit manager for a top international accounting firm prior to academia.

 

Honors and Recognitions

• 2025, Winner of The CASE Association Best Case Award
• 2024, SBS Dean’s Exemplary Faculty Award2015, Suffolk University Academic Integration Honoree - Selected by student-athletes as a professor who has gone above and beyond to enhance their Suffolk experience2010, Sawyer Business School Service Award
• 2009, Most Influential Studies Award in Industrial and Corporate Change

Publications

Recent Intellectual Contributions

O'Neill, R. and Levesque, L. (2026). Employee Support for Unionization at Starbucks? A Peer-Influence Negotiation.  Management Teaching Review. 11(1): 7-22.

Arora, R., O’Neill, R. Blake-Beard, S., and MacLean, T. (2026) The Influence of Gender Composition on Supervisory Mentoring and Career Commitment in India. European Journal of Training and Development. 50 (1-2): 171-188

Levesque, L. and O’Neill, R. (2026). What the Boss Wants. Management Teaching Review. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23792981251389841

Levesque, L. and O’Neill, R. (2026). Diz’s Café. Journal of Critical Incidents

Levesque, L. and O’Neill, R. (2025). Upset, yet loyal: Employee voice amidst unionization at Starbucks. The Case Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-10-2023-0218

McPherson, C., Levesque, L. and O’Neill, R. (2025). Opposing Preferences: Negotiating Objects with Hidden Value. Journal of Organizational Behavior Education

Kroll, J. and O'Neill, R. (2025). Leading Group Mentoring. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring

Boehler, B. MacLean, T., and O’Neill R. (2023). Collaboration, Compliance, and Cupcakes:  A Classroom Exercise. Management Teaching Review 8 (2): 170–79. https://doi-org.ezproxysuf.flo.org/10.1177/23792981211054505

Kroll, J., Blake-Beard, S., and O'Neill, R. (2022). Women’s Ways of Mentoring:  Peer Group Mentorship as a Meaningful Developmental Experience. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 30 (5): 634–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2022.2127258

 

Dumas, C. and O'Neill, R. (2022). An Exercise in Practicing Functional Stress Management Skills to Enhance Student Well-Being. Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, 15, 131-152. https://www.neilsonjournals.com/JOBE/JOBEpromos/DumasO'Neill15p.pdf

 

Shapiro, M., Rivera-Beckstrom, M., Ingols, C., Blake-Beard, S., Gao, L., O'Neill, R., and Van Dam, E. (2022). What's power got to do with it? Seeking gender-equity in organizations through male ally initiatives. Advancing Women in Leadership, 41, 1-12. https://ezproxysuf.flo.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/whats-power-got-do-with-seeking-gender-equity/docview/2681090847/se-2

 

Webber, S., O'Neill, R., and Dossinger, K. (2020). The Empowering Leadership Project. Journal of Management Education. Volume 44, 342-361.

 

Efstathiou, J. A., Drumm, M., Paly, J. P., Lawton, D., O'Neill, R., Niewmierko, A., Leffert, L. R., Loeffler, J. S., and Shi, H. (2018). Mentorship in Academic Medicine. PLOS ONE. Volume 13 (11), 1-12.

 

Nagarur, A., O’Neill, R., Lawton, D., and Greenwald, J.L. (2017). Supporting Faculty Development in Hospital Medicine: Design and Implementation of a Personalized Structured Mentoring Program.  Journal of Hospital Medicine. Volume 13, 2.

 

O’Neill, R., Morgan Roberts, L., Blake-Beard, S., and Blockson, L. (2016). Leading change through unprecedented times: Nancy Sims and The Robert A. Toigo Foundation. Case Research Journal.  Volume 36, Issue 4.

 

Ornstein, S. and O'Neill, R. (2014). Can we get to yes? Business negotiations between two start-ups. Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, Volume 7

 

O'Neill, R., Shapiro, M., Blake-Beard, S. and Ingols, C. (2013). Understanding women’s career goals across ethnic identities, Advancing Women in Leadership Journal 33, 214-226.

 

Webber, S., Bishop, K. and O’Neill, R. (2012). Trust repair: The impact of perceived organizational support and issue-selling success, Journal of Management Development, 31 (7), 724-737.

 

Bishop, K., Webber, S. and O’Neill, R. (2011). Preparation and prior experience in issue-selling success, Journal of Managerial Issues, XXIII(3), 323-340.

 

Blake-Beard, S., O'Neill, R., Shapiro, M. and Ingols, C. (2010). “Social sustainability, flexible work arrangements, and diverse women. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 25 (5), 408-425. 

 

Shapiro, M., Ingols, C., O'Neill, R., and Blake-Beard, S. (2009). Making sense of women as career self-agents: Implications for human resource development. Human Resources Development Quarterly, 2 (4), 477-501.

 

Shapiro, M., Ingols, C., Blake-Beard, S., and O'Neill, R. (2009). Canaries in the mineshaft: Women signaling a shifting career model. People & Strategy, 32 (3), 52-59.

 

Roberts, D., Morgan-Roberts, L., O’Neill, R., and Blake-Beard, S. (2008).  The invisible work of managing visibility for social change: Insights from the leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Business & Society, 47 (4), 425-456.  

 

O’Neill, R. (2005). An examination of organizational predictors of mentoring functions. Journal of Managerial Issues, 17 (4) 439-461.

 

Levesque, L. L., O’Neill, R., Nelson, T., and Dumas, C. (2005).  Sex differences in the perceived importance of mentoring functions. Career Development International, 10 (6/7), 429-443. 

 

O'Neill, R. and Blake-Beard, S. D. (2002).  The influence of gender in the female mentor-male protégé relationship. Journal of Business Ethics, 37 (1), 51-63. 

 

O’Neill, R. and Sankowsky, D. (2001).  The Caligula phenomenon: Mentoring relationships and theoretical abuse.  Journal of Management Inquiry, 10 (3), 206-216.

 

Dutton, J. E., Ashford, S. J., O'Neill, R., and Lawrence, K. A. (2001).  Moves that matter: Issue selling and organizational change.  Academy of Management Journal, 44 (4), 716-736.

 

Zanzi, A. and O’Neill, R. (2001).  A comparison of sanctioned versus non sanctioned political tactics.  Journal of Managerial Issues, 13 (2), 245-262.

 

O’Neill, R. and Lambert, D. R. (2001). Exploring the emotional aspects of price.  Psychology & Marketing, 18 (3), 217-237. 

 

Edwards, J. R. and O'Neill, R. (1998).  The construct validity of the ways of coping questionnaire: Confirmatory analysis of alternative factor structures.  Educational and Psychological Measurement, 58 (6), 955-983.

 

Dutton, J. E., Ashford, S. J, Wierba, E., O'Neill, R., and Hayes, E. (1997).  Reading the wind: How middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers.  Strategic Management Journal, 18 (5), 407-425.