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Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Academic Director, Leadership Institute
BS MA (Minnesota) PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Professor Randall S. Peterson is Academic Director of the Leadership Institute and Chair of the Research Ethics Committee. Randall’s research and teaching focus on CEO personality, top management team interaction, board dynamics, leading diverse teams, conflict management, and the effects of member personality on group interaction and performance. Randall has won the Academy of Management’s ‘Best Paper’ award, as well as the ‘most influential article’ award. His research was similarly awarded ‘most influential article’ by the International Association of Conflict Management and ‘Best Paper’ published in small group research.
Randall’s newest book is ‘Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand.’ His earlier book is ‘Leading and Managing in the Dynamic Organization.’ He has also published more than 50 articles in top scientific journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and the Journal of Applied Psychology, as well as top managerial journals including Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. His research has also been featured in major news outlets around the world including the BBC, Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Board Agenda, The New Yorker, and Zawya.
Randall is also an outstanding mentor, having won the Academy of Management’s ‘Best Mentor’ award and teacher as a winner of London Business School’s ‘Excellence in Teaching” award. Randall has been invited to teach and consult across the world, for companies such as ADNOC, Alcan, AREVA, Barclays, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, GIB, IBM, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Roche.
Randall holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining London Business School, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University and Cornell University's SC Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is a former Deputy Dean (Faculty), Subject Area Chair of Organisational Behaviour, Chair of the Ph.D. Programme, and Vice President of the Campaign Committee of London Business School.
To learn more about Professor Peterson’s research, awards, and teaching, please visit: www.randallspeterson.com
Paper selected for the Proceedings of the Academy of Management (best papers), Conflict Management Division, 2014.
London Business School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013, for overall teaching performance within the School.
Small Group Research 2010-11 finalist Best Paper Award.
International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award for an article or book chapter that has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field over the previous two years, 2010
Paper selected for the Proceedings of the Academy of Management (best papers, top 10% of submissions), Conflict Management Division, 2006
London Business School Teaching Award for Innovation in Learning, 2004, for Global Leadership Assessment for Managers (GLAM) course
S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management “4.5 Club” (for excellence in teaching), 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Clifford H. Whitcomb Faculty Fellowship (for excellence in research), Cornell University, 2000-2001
Paper selected for the Proceedings of the Academy of Management (best papers, 11 of 270), Organizational Behavior Division, 1998
Paper selected for the Proceedings of the Academy of Management (best papers, 3 of 63), Conflict Management Division, 1998
Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award, Finalist
Division 49 of APA (groups division) Dissertation Award, Finalist
Chair's Dissertation Fund Award, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley, 1994
2023
Emich K; Lu L; Ferguson A J; Peterson R S; Martin S; McLean E; Woodruff T; McCourt M
Academy of Management Discoveries 2023 In Press
Lim S-L; Peterson R S; Bentley P; Hu X; Prouty-McLaren J
Collective Intelligence 2023 In Press
Emich K J; McCourt M; Lu L; Ferguson A; Peterson R S
Organizational Research Methods 2023 Online first
2022
Peterson R S; Gardner H K
Harvard Business Review 2022
Peterson R S
In Valeur C & Fargeot C, Effective Directors: The Right Questions to Ask (QTA). Abingdon, Taylor & Francisg
Emich K J; Lu L; Ferguson A; Peterson R S; McCourt M
Organizational Research Methods 2022 Vol 25:4 p 642-672
Behfar K J; Peterson R S
Harvard Business Review 2022 Mar-Apr
2021
O'Connor K M; Peterson R S
MIT Sloan Management Review Digital Articles 2021
Shah P; Peterson R S; Jones S L; Ferguson A J
Administrative Science Quarterly 2021 Vol 66:2 p 426-474
2020
Peterson R S
World Economic Forum (Online). Published online, 11 March 2020
Gardner H K; Peterson R S
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2020
2019
Gardner H K; Peterson R S
Harvard Business Review 2019 Vol 97:5 p 106-113
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2019 Vol 30:2-3
Peterson R S; O'Connor K M
Forbes online 2019 April 1, 2019
Peterson R S; O'Connor K
Society for Human Resource Management (Online). Published online 29 April 2019
de Largy C; Peterson R S
Management Today 2018 10 December 2018
Peterson R S
Strategy and Business 2018 October 24, 2018
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2018
2017
Peterson R S; Johnston A
London Business School Review 2017
Peterson R S; Jolly R
London Business School Review 2017 March
Hu X; Zhang G; Wang L; Peterson R S; Bai Y
Academy of Management Proceedings 2017 Vol 2017:1
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2017
Peterson R S; Wakeman S W
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2017 March 6th
Peterson R S; Yueh L; Ibarra H; Vermeulen F
London Business School Review 2017
2016
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2016
Srikanth K; Harvey S; Peterson R
Academy of Management Annals 2016 Vol 10:1 p 453-493
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2016 Spring Vol 27:1 p 44-45
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2016
2015
Peterson R S
in C. M. Berger and M. Roloff (Eds). International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley. 2015
Peterson R S
London Business School Review 2015 Winter Vol 26:4 p 53
Ferguson A J; Peterson R S
Journal of Applied Psychology 2015 Vol 100:4 p 1012-1024
Peterson R S; Harvey S R
Book Chapter: In Wiley Encyclopedia of Management 3rd eds., John Wiley, 2014
Peterson R S; Ferguson A J
in O.B. Ayoko, N. Ashkanasy & K. A. Jehn (Eds), Handbook of conflict management research, p.193-204. Edward Elgar, 2014
Harvey S; Peterson R S; Anand N
Small Group Research 2014 Vol 45:5 p 506-538
2012
Chen Y R; Peterson R S; Phillips D J; Podolny J M; Ridgeway C L
Organization Science 2012 Vol 23:2 p 299-307
Peterson R
In A. B. Hollingshead and M. S. Poole (Eds.), Research Methods for Studying Groups and Teams: A Guide to Approaches, Tools, and Technologies (pp. 121-131). London, UK: Taylor Francis/Routledge.
Peterson R S; Kim K
In M. Neale and E. A. Mannix (Eds), Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research. In the series: Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Emerald Publishing, 2012
2011
Behfar K J; Mannix E A; Peterson R S; Trochim W M K
Small Group Research 2011 Vol 42:2 p 127-176
2010
Brower A; Keyton J; Moreland R L; Peterson R S
Small Group Research 2010 Vol 42:1 p 249-250
2009
Peterson R S; Harvey S
In Tjosvold D; Wisse B (eds), Power and interdependence in organizations, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
2008
Behfar K J; Peterson R S; Mannix E A; Trochim W M K
Journal of Applied Psychology 2008 Vol 93:1 p 170-188
Peterson R S; Davidson J; Moynihan L M
In Behfar K & Thompson L eds., Conflict in organizational groups, pp93-112, Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007
Ronson S; Peterson R S
In Sullivan B A; Snyder M; Sullivan J L eds., Cooperation: The political psychology of effective human interaction, pp181-198, Malden MA: Blackwell, 2007
2006
Peterson R S; Smith D B; Martorana P V
Journal of Applied Psychology 2006 Jan Vol 91:1 p 6-8
Moynihan L; Peterson R S; Earley P C
In Mannix E A; Neale M A; Chen Y-R eds., Research on managing groups and teams: national culture,Vol 9 pp279-304, Elsevier, 2006
Moynihan L; Peterson R S; Earley P C
In Chen Y R and Mannix E eds., Research in the management of groups and teams, JAI Press, 2006
Peterson R S; et al.
Best proceedings of the Academy of Management
2005
Ronson S; Peterson R S
in Nicholson N, Audia P and Pillutla M eds., Blackwell encyclopedia of management: organisational behavior, Blackwell, 2005
Peterson R S; Ronson S
in Nicholson N, Audia P and Pillutla M eds., Blackwell encyclopedia of management: organisational behavior, Blackwell, 2005
Peterson R S; Ronson S
in Nicholson N, Audia P and Pillutla M eds., Blackwell encyclopedia of management: organisational behavior, Blackwell, 2005
Peterson R S; Ronson S
in Nicholson N, Audia P and Pillutla M eds., Blackwell encyclopedia of management: organisational behavior, Blackwell, 2005
Peterson R S; Ronson S
in Nicholson N, Audia P and Pillutla M eds., Blackwell encyclopedia of management: organisational behavior, Blackwell, 2005
Peterson R S; et al.
in Poole M S and Hollingshead A B eds., Theories of small groups: an interdisciplinary perspective, p 21-62, Sage, 2005
2004
Earley P C; Peterson R S
Academy of Management Learning and Education 2004 Vol 3 p 100-115
Peterson R S; et al.
Small Group Research 2004 Vol 35 p 17-42
Peterson R S; Behfar K J
in Messick D and Kramer R eds., Psychology of leadership: new perspectives and research, p 143-162, Erlbaum, 2004
Moynihan L; Peterson R S
in Schneider B and Smith D B eds., Personality and organizations, p 317-345, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
2003
Peterson R S; Behfar K J
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 2003 Vol 92:1-2 p 102-112
Peterson R S; Smith D B
Journal of Applied Psychology 2003 Oct Vol 88:5 p 795-808
Peterson R S; Sancovich A C
in Peterson R S and Mannix E A eds., Leading and managing people in dynamic organizations, p 253-261, Erlbaum, 2003
2002
Peterson R S
in Frey R ed., New directions in group communication research, p 79-96, Sage, 2002
Franz N K; Peterson R S; Dailey A L
Journal of Extension 2002 Vol 40:3
Peterson R S; Tetlock P E
Administrative Science Quarterly 2002 Vol 47 p 178-181
2001
Moynihan L; Peterson R S
Research in Organizational Behavior 2001 Vol 23 p 327-378
Peterson R S
in Darley J, Messick D and Tyler T R eds., Social influences on ethical behavior in organizations, p21-36, Erlbaum, 2001
2000
Peterson R S; et al.
Cornell Cooperative Extension, 2000
Peterson R S
Administrative Science Quarterly 2000 Vol 45:1 p 160-162
Simons T L; Peterson R S
Journal of Applied Psychology 2000 Vol 85 p 102-111
1999
Peterson R S
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 1999 Vol 25 p 313-324
Peterson R S; Owens P D; Martorana P V
in Wageman R ed., Groups in context, p 49-69, JAI Press, 1999
Peterson R S; Owens P D; Martorana P V
Organizational Research Methods 1999 Vol 2 p 107-136
1998
Peterson R S et al.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1998 Vol 73 p 272-305
Peterson R S; Owens P D; Martorana P V
in Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 1998
Simons T L; Peterson R S
in Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 1998
1997
Peterson R S
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1997 Vol 72 p 1107-1121
1996
Peterson R S; Nemeth C J
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 1996 Vol 22 p 14-23
Tetlock P E; Peterson R S; Lerner J S
in Seligman C, Olson J M and Zanna M P eds., Psychology of values: the Ontario symposium, Erlbaum, 1996
1994
Peterson R S
Journal of Social Issues 1994 Vol 50:4 p 95-116
Tetlock P E; Armor D; Peterson R S
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1994 Vol 66:1 p 115-126
1993
Tetlock P E; Peterson R S; Berry J M
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993 Vol 64 p 500-511
Sniderman P M; Peterson R S et al.
in Sniderman P M, Tetlock P E and Carmines E G eds., Prejudice, politics, and the American dilemma, p 212-236, Stanford University Press, 1993
Sniderman P M; Tetlock P E; Peterson R S
Politics and the Individual 1993 Vol 3 p 1-28
1992
Tetlock P E; Peterson R S et al.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1992 Vol 63 p 403-425
2022
Brown G; Peterson R S
Palgrave Macmillan
Fletcher C J; Peterson R S; Rattan A
Fletcher C J; Peterson R S; Rollins V L
Fletcher C J; Peterson R S; Rollins V L
2021
Peterson R S
Financial Reporting Council
Peterson R
Peterson R
Peterson R; Rollins V; Fletcher C J
Duke L; Peterson R
Duke, L; Peterson R
2003
Peterson R S; Mannix E A eds.
Erlbaum, 2003
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