Adam Waytz is the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management and professor of Management and Organizations. His research uses methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study how people think about other minds and to investigate processes related to ethics, intergroup processes, and the psychological consequences of technology. Professor Waytz's research has been published in leading journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Review. In recognition of his work, Professor Waytz received the 2008 and 2013 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the SAGE Foundation Young Scholar Award, and the International Social Cognition Network's Early Career Award. He was also a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation from 2018-2019. Professor Waytz received his BA in Psychology from Columbia University, his PhD in social psychology from the University of Chicago, and received a National Service Research Award from the National Institute of Health to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University.

Ethics and morality, Mind perception, Dehumanization, Social connection, Meaning-making, Social influence, Human-Technology Interaction

• Ph.D., 2009, Psychology, University of Chicago
• M.A., 2006, Psychology, University of Chicago
• B.A., 2003, Psychology, Columbia University, Summa Cum Laude

• Associate Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 8/31/2020
• Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2/19/2015
• NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Harvard University, 6/23/2011

• HBR Prize Finalist (for "Beware a Culture of Busyness"), Harvard Business Review
• Pedagogy Competition Award, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Chair's Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management
• Sidney J Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management
• Northwestern University's Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence
• Chair's Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management
• Profiled for Faculty Excellence In Research for Northwestern Research magazine
• Outstanding Case on Anti-Corruption (with Vasilia Kilibarda), North American Case Research Association
• Sage Young Scholar Award, Society for Personality & Social Psychology & the Foundation for Personality & Social Psychology
• Early Career Award, International Social Cognition Network
• Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Named to the Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40, Poets and Quants
• Participant in Edge.org Annual Question, edge.org
• Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

• Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020
• Editorial Board, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017
• Editorial Board Member, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2015

Values-based Leadership

Leadership in Organizations

Ethics and Executive Leadership

Micro-Organizational Research Methods (MORS-526-1)
This course provides an introduction to research designs and methods for "micro" research in organizations. The purpose to develop students' skill at designing, executing, interpreting, and evaluating micro-organizational and social psychological research. The course addresses both theoretical and practical considerations of research methods, with a special focus on the role of laboratory experiments and other common methods in behavioral research.

Beyond Diversity

Individual. Interpersonal. Institutional. Intentionally designed to be in-person, this program empowers you as DEI Leaders to take proven concepts and translate them into bold actions, creating meaningful change for yourself, your employees, and your organization.

Energizing People for Performance

Participants in this highly interactive program, master the processes and tools required to unleash the potential in individuals, energize their teams, and empower people to achieve consistently higher levels of performance and deliver better bottom-line results.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Innovation and Organizational Performance

Learn from Kellogg’s leading experts how to fully leverage AI for analytics, insight, strategy, and organizational growth. This program’s intuitive approach helps leaders enhance innovation, understand the impact of AI on work, and develop AI initiatives within their organizations.

Ethics & Executive Leadership (PACTX-460-0)

Ethics and Leadership (PACT-460-0)
This course focuses on the ways in which leaders must recognize and respond to a variety of competing value propositions both within and outside their organizations. Whereas management typically involves the creation of incentive systems leadership motivates through the creation of norms, by example and inspiration. Leadership ultimately involves the ability to take the disparate value propositions of various stakeholders and integrate them into a coherent vision. The course is built on the three foundations: basic ethics; behavioral economics; and insights from social psychology. Class sessions typically involve a mix of lecture, in-class discussion of cases and student papers and group projects. Students will write short reflection papers that serve as the basis for class discussion. There will also be two group projects and a final exam.

Leadership in Organizations (MORS-430-0)
This course provides students with the social science tools needed to solve organizational problems and influence the actions of individuals, groups and organizations. It prepares managers to understand how to best organize and motivate the human capital of the firm, manage social networks and alliances, and execute strategic change. This is accomplished through knowledge of competitive decision making, reward system design, team building, strategic negotiation, political dynamics, corporate culture and strategic organizational design.

MBAi Organizational Design and Ethics (MBAI-930-0)