The following Management and Organizations Department faculty members teach in the PhD Program:

Jeanne M. Brett
DeWitt W. Buchanan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations, Director of the Dispute Resolution Research Center. BA 1967, History, Southern Methodist University; AM 1969, PhD 1972, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois. Research: Dispute resolution, negotiation, cross-cultural negotiation, work and family, gender and management, employee relocation.

Noshir Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication & Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, McCormick School of Engineering. B Tech 1983, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology; MA 1986, Communication, University of Southern California; PhD 1987, Communication, University of Southern California. Research: Social network theories, technologies in enabling knowledge, collaboration and innovation networks, statistical and computational modeling of networks, applications in business, research communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life.

Robert Dewar
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations. BA 1969, History and Philosophy, Fordham University; MS 1971, PhD 1976, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Research: Implementation of strategy through design of organizational and managerial systems for professional employees, manufacturers response to wholesale and retail trade concentration, national account management systems.

Adam Galinsky
Morris and Alice Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management. AB 1991, Psychology, Harvard University; PhD 1999, Social Psychology, Princeton University. Research: Intergroup relations, negotiations and conflict resolution, effects of power on perception, social interaction and behavior, decision making.

Paul M. Hirsch
James L. Allen Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Management & Organizations, Chair of Management & Organizations Department. BA 1966, City College of New York; MA 1968, PhD 1973, Sociology, University of Michigan. Research: Managing mergers and restructurings, corporate strategy, organizational change, human resource management.

Brayden King
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 1999, Sociology, Brigham Young University; MA 2001, Sociology, Brigham Young University; PhD 2005, Sociology, University of Arizona. Research: Social movements and collective action, corporate and legislative policymaking, organizational change, organizational identity, economic sociology.  

Paul Leonardi
Allen and Johnnie Breed Junior Professor of Design. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Industrial Engineering/Management Sciences. BA 2001, Communication, St. Mary’s College of California; MA 2003, Organizational Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder; PhD 2007, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University. Research: Technology-driven Organizational Change: New Product Development; Distributed Teams.

Robert Livingston
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 1993, Latin American Studies/Spanish, Tulane University; MA 1996, Romance Literature and Linguistics, UCLA; PhD 2001, Social Psychology, Ohio State University. Research: Implicit attitudes and decisions, social cognition, the role of affect in interpersonal and intergroup relations, managing cultural and ethnic diversity, social justice and conflict resolution, self-regulation.

Victoria Medvec
Adeline Barry Davee Professor of Management & Organizations, Executive Director of Center for Executive Women. BA 1986, Bucknell University; PhD 1995, Cornell University. Research: Focus on judgment and decision-making, with a particular emphasis on how people feel about the decisions they have made, independent decision-making and interdependent decisions within the context of negotiations.

J. Keith Murnighan
Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management. BS 1970, Psychology, MS 1972, PhD 1974, Social Psychology, Purdue University. Research: Negotiation, group decision-making, empirical applications of game theory, risk management, fairness, team building, ethics, emotions.

Loran Nordgren
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 2001, Psychology, St. Olaf College; PhD 2007, Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam. Research: judgment and decision making, emotion, social interaction and behavior.

William Ocasio
John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 1976, University of Puerto Rico; MBA 1984, Harvard University; PhD 1992, Stanford University. Research: Political dynamics in organizations; corporate governance and control; organizational attention and decision-making; organizational change.

Susan Perkins
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 1991, Marketing, Howard University;MBA 1995, MPhil 2003, Managment, PhD 2006, Management: Strategy and International Business, New York University. Research: Foreign direct investment, institutional economics, regulation, corporate governance and ownership structures, firm location decisions.

Katherine W. Phillips
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations. BSc1994, Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; PhD 1999, Organizational Behavior, Stanford University. Research: Process and performance of work groups in organizations, including the roles of informational and demographic diversity, minority influence, social categorization and expectancy violations on group decision-making and problem solving.

Michael Radnor
Professor of Management & Organizations. BSc 1956, DIC 1957, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University; Diploma 1956, London School of Economics; PhD 1964, Northwestern University. Research: International technology strategy, international business and trade development, technology sourcing, innovation processes, industry and trade policy, technology transfer and application, U.S./Third World relations, industrial restructuring and privatization, small business development.

Lauren Rivera
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 2000, Psychology and Sociology, Yale University; MA 2006, Sociology, Harvard University; PhD 2009, Sociology, Harvard University. Research: Stratification, culture, labor markets, impression management, sociological theory, gender, qualitative/mixed methods and micro-macro links.

Nicole Stephens
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BA 2002, Psychology, Williams College; PhD 2009, Social Psychology, Stanford University. Research: Culture and the self; How social class, race/ethnicity, and gender shape mind and behavior, with a particular emphasis on the contexts of choice/decision-making, education, and health; The sociocultural sources and consequences of prejudice, discrimination, and social inequality.

Ithai Stern
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. BS 1997, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; MA 1998, University of Notre Dame; PhD 2005, University of Texas at Austin. Research: Strategic management and organization theory.

Leigh Thompson
J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations, Professor of Management & Organizations, Director of the Kellogg Teams and Groups Center. BS 1982, Northwestern University; MA 1984, University of California, Santa Barbara; PhD 1988, Northwestern University. Research: Negotiation, group behavior, decision-making, social cognition, affective evaluations of events, how groups and teams develop shared understanding of problems and behaviors.

Brian Uzzi
Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Chair Professor of Leadership, Professor of Management & Organizations and Professor of Sociology. BA 1982, Business and Psychology, Hofstra University; MS 1989, Carnegie Mellon University; MA 1991, PhD 1994, Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Research: Social networks, complexity theory and complex social systems, human creativity, scientific and artistic collaborations, embeddedness, and the social structure of markets with applications to creative industries and organizations in finance, fashion, movies, music, musicals, and law.

Klaus Weber
Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations. BA 1994, European Studies and Business, Middlesex University; Dipl.-Betriebswirt 1994, FH Reutlingen; MS 1995, Industrial Relations, London School of Economics; PhD 2003, Organizational Behavior, University of Michigan. Research: Institutional and cultural analysis, sensemaking processes, industrial and organizational change, social impact of business, globalization.

Edward J. Zajac
James F. Berz Distinguished Professor of Management & Organizations, Professor of Health Industry Management, Director, Center for Research on Strategic Alliances. BS 1979, Accounting and German, LaSalle College; MBA 1984, Management/Strategic Planning, MA 1985, PhD 1986, Organization and Strategy, University of Pennsylvania. Research: Study of strategic management issues, particularly strategic alliances, corporate governance (CEO/board relations and CEO succession and compensation), organizational adaptation to changing business environments.