Faculty Image Milan Larson
Assistant Professor of Management
Email: milan.larson@unco.edu
Phone: (970) 351-1219
Office: 1095-D
Office Hours:
M-1:00-3:30pm
W-1:00-3:30pm
Research: Human Resources

Education:
  • Ph.D. Management 2004 University of Nebraska

  • M.B.A. in Master's of Business Administration (1994), Executive Programs - University of Colorado
  • B.A. in Business Education (1988), Concordia College

    • Recent Publications:

  • Using Your Resources Wisely in Starting a New Venture: FTE's make a Bigger Impact Than PTE's. in Southern Management Association (Academia of Management Regional Conference) (2006)

  • Organizational Preparedness: Who's Really Ready for a Major Crisis or Disaster in Decision Sciences Institute (2006)

  • Potential Added Value of Psychological Capital in Predicting Work Attitudes in Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies (2006)

  • Organizational Preparedness for Coping with a Major Crisis or Disaster in Business and Society (2006)

  • The Added Value of Psychological Capital in Decision Sciences Institute (2005)

  • Organizational Preparedness for Crisis or Disaster in Decision Sciences Institute (2005)

  • New Venture Start-up Courses and Type of Employees: Unexplored Moderators to New Ventures in Academy of Management (2004)

  • Human Capital Acquisition and Management As Antecedents For Venture Growth in Conference on Entrepreneurship In Transitional Economies , Kiev, UK (2003)

  • Positive Psychology in the Virtual Team Processes in International Positive Psychology Conference (2003)

  • Resiliency: A Resource For Today's Employees in Academy of Management (2003)

  • The Reality of Virtual Impacts: Exploration of Virtuality as a Moderator in an LMX Framework in Academy of Management (2003)

  • Downsizing Decisions: Do They Lead to a More Homogeneous Workforce? in Decision Sciences Institute (2002)

    • Awards Received:

  • Award: Beta Theta Pi, Outstanding Educator Award(2003)

    • Bio: Milan Larson has recently joined the Monfort College of Business as an Assistant Professor in Management, with an emphasis in Human Resource Management courses. Although new to the UNC community, he spent 11 years in Colorado and is glad to be returning to Colorado after a 4 year hiatus pursing his PhD. He has been teaching at the university for ten years at other institutions, including Colorado State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter Minnesota. He earned his bachelor’s of arts from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN; MBA from the Executive Programs at University of Colorado; and PhD from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With an emphasis in Human Resource Management, Milan focuses his research on HRM in small businesses and entrepreneurship. Other areas of research interest include positive psychology in the work place, psychological contracts of employees, and employee resiliency. He is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, National Decision Science Institute, Academy of Management, and Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology. Before working in academia, Milan worked as a manager in the retail and manufacturing industries, including Teledyne Water Pik in Fort Collins, Colorado. In addition to his manager roles, he has worked as an outside consultant with companies in the manufacturing, retail, healthcare, high tech, and non-profit industries throughout the country. When not at work, Milan enjoys spending time with his wife and two young daughters doing any outdoor activity, but especially golfing, skiing, camping, and boating.