Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Raina Brands studies gender bias in organisations through the lens of social networks. She examines how women's careers and reputations are helped and hindered by informal social networks of friendship and advice. Prior to joining London Business School she was on the faculty at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

Her work is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management and has been featured in The New York Times and Financial Times.

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Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List, The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.”

Dan’s newest book is Alive at Work, and his first book was Change to Strange. He has published two edited books and more than 50 articles in top scientific journals. His most recent research was published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly. This research has been featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, and Business Week.

Dan’s clients include Carlsberg, Coca Cola, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, Ikea, McDonalds, MS Amlin, NBC Universal, Porsche Consulting, Prudential, PwC, Rabobank, Roche, Sanofi, Siemens, and Twitter.

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Dr Yoonjin Choi’s research examines how various cultural elements such as values, frames and narratives shape individuals’ performance and behaviours as well as their social relationships. In one stream, Dr Choi looks at how individuals’ understanding and use of organisational culture affect their performance, including their creativity, conflict management skills and career attainment. In another stream, she focuses on values and examines how personal and organisational values shape individual behaviours, from building and maintaining relationships to making ethical decisions at work. Dr Choi uses various methods, from computational linguistics and social network analysis to field experiments.

Dr Choi has a PhD and an MPhil from Columbia Business School and a BS from Yonsei University.

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A social psychologist by training, Dr Daniel A Effron teaches courses on Managing Organisational Behaviour (MOB), Developing Effective Managers and Organisations (DEMO), and Ethics in Work, Organisations, and Society. Before joining London Business School, he taught Negotiations at the Kellogg School of Management, and was a fellow of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

His research examines the psychology of (1) how people act in ethically questionable ways without feeling unethical, and (2) what shapes people’s judgments of others’ unethical behaviour. His current projects focus on judgments of hypocrisy, and what leads people to let leaders off the hook for dishonesty.

Dr Effron's research has appeared in top scholarly publications such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. His work has been discussed in media outlets such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg. He received an award for his MBA teaching from London Business School, and his doctoral work was honoured with an American Psychological Association Dissertation Award.

To learn more about Dr. Effron's research, please visit www.danieleffron.com

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Lynda is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs the program ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies’ – considered the world’s leading program on human resources. Her elective on the Future of Work is one of the school’s most popular and in 2016 she received the school’s ‘Excellence in Teaching’ award. For over ten years she has led the Future of Work Consortium which has brought executives from more than 60 companies together both virtually and on a bespoke collaborative platform.

Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organizations. Her books cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), the new ways of working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift ) and the impact of longevity on society (The 100 Year Life – co-authored with Andrew Scott). In 2012 The Shift received the best book of the year in Japan and has been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2015 The Key won the CMI Management Book of the Year. In 2017 The 100 Year Life was shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year, became the best selling book in Japan and has been translated into 15 languages.

Lynda’s work has been acknowledged globally – she has won the Tata prize in India; in the US she has been named as the annual Fellow of NAHR and won the CCL prize; whilst in Australia she has won the HR prize. She has been named by Thinkers 50 has one of the top 15 thinkers in the world.

Lynda is a Steward of the World Economic Forum and has chaired the WEF Council on Leadership. She serves as a judge on the Google.org prize, and in November 2017 was named as a council member of Prime Minister Abe’s council on social change.

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Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties.

An authority on leadership and career development, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of Apolitical’s 100 most influential people in gender policy. She was the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for the contributions of her scholarly research  to management practice.

Professor Ibarra is the author of best-selling books including Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. She writes regularly  in the Harvard Business Review and leading academic journals as well as business publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. Professor Ibarra speaks internationally on leadership and organisational transformation.

A native of Cuba, Professor Ibarra received her MA and PhD from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow.

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Ena Inesi is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour. She has been at London Business School since 2007. Ena’s education includes a BSc in Civil Engineering (magna cum laude) from Duke University and a PhD in Organisational Behavior from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Her research focuses on power and how it affects relationships and decision-making.

Ena teaches across all degree programmes at London Business School. In Executive Education, she has taught on the “Emerging Leaders” and the “Negotiation and Influence Skills for Managers” open programmes, and has taught on custom programmes for a variety of companies, including Prudential, YPO, World Economic Programme, Carlsberg and Arla.

Her work has been presented at the most respected conferences in her field, and the leading journals have published her work. The popular press has also featured her research, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate.com, and US News and World Report.

Before earning her PhD, Ena worked as a consultant at Bain and Company in Atlanta, Georgia and Rome, Italy. She was also part of the founding team of Velodea Srl – a website start-up in Milan, Italy – where she worked as a consultant and project manager.

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Dr Dana Kanze holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia Business School.

Her research applies behavioural insights to understand sources of labour market inequality, spanning the areas of judgement and decision making, ethics, motivation science and entrepreneurship.

Dr Kanze’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (in press), as well as in practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review.

Her research has been featured by BBC Radio, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Chicago Booth Review, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Pitchbook, Quartz, Scientific American, TechCrunch, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wharton Magazine.

Accomplished as an ad-hoc reviewer and TED speaker, Dr Kanze started her career as an investment banker and strategic consultant for Citigroup and Winterberry Group, going on to co-found and run a venture-funded start-up before re-entering education.

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Dr Selin Kesebir’s research interests include cooperation, competition, gender, inequality and cultural transmission. She teaches Executive Leadership and Negotiations in her role as Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, of London Business School. Prior to joining the School she was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at UVa’s Darden School of Business.

She completed her undergraduate studies in Economics and International Relations at Koç University in Turkey. She has an MA in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University and a PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia.

She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and previously has been Editor in-Chief and Associate Editor of In-Mind Magazine. She has also reviewed: Basic and Applied Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Emotion Review, European Journal of Social Psychology, Merrill Palmer Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, L'Année Psychologique, Motivation and Emotion, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Perspectives in Psychological Science.

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Gillian Ku is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. She received her PhD in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management. Prior to her doctoral studies, Gillian earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and worked at the Disney Corporation where she was a financial analyst for Disney’s international video distribution division.

Gillian’s internationally-recognised research is in the broad area of negotiations, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships. Specifically, her research has focused on the dynamics of emotionally-charged decision-making and she investigates the decision-making processes involved in negotiations, auction bidding, and auction fever. She also has active research projects on perspective-taking and gender differences in a variety of domains. Gillian’s research has been widely published in the premier outlets of her field, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research in Organizational Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Harvard Business Review. Her research has also garnered international press coverage, including reports on auction behaviour at CNN, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, BusinessWeek.com, and The Telegraph.

Gillian’s award-winning teaching focuses on negotiations, decision-making, and leading teams. She teaches on London Business School’s full-time MBA and Executive Education programmes. She has also consulted worldwide for schools (e.g. Indian School of Business and Cyprus International Institute of Management) and organisations (e.g. Diageo, Roche, Oman Oil, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation).

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Dr Pier Vittorio Mannucci’s research focuses on how creativity can be fostered in individuals and settings that are stereotypically depicted as less creative. His specific area of expertise centres on how individuals can be consistently creative over time, and on the effects of social networks, technology and culture on individual and team creativity.

Dr Mannucci holds a BA and MSc from Bocconi University and was awarded a PhD by HEC Paris. He has working experience in film production and sports management, which matches a personal passion for cinema and basketball.

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Thomas Mussweiler is a professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. He is an expert on the psychological foundations of organisational behaviour. More specifically, his interests include trust and cooperation, judgment and decision making, negotiation and influence, the self, interpersonal processes and stereotyping. Much of Professor Mussweiler’s research focuses on social comparison processes – he examines how comparing with others changes people’s self-image, their motivation and performance.

Professor Mussweiler is the recipient of a series of prestigious national and international awards, including the European Young Investigator Award and the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Award, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 70 scientific articles in a broad spectrum of the leading journals of his field, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making.

Professor Mussweiler has extensive teaching experience at a variety of institutions. In his 20 years of teaching, he has taught decision making, negotiation, organisational behaviour and social psychology to a variety of different audiences.

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O’Connor’s is an authority on negotiation, conflict management, and collaboration. She has studied the impact of teams at the bargaining table, how stress influences negotiators’ choice of tactics, and how reputations for toughness undermine negotiators. Her recent research investigates how men’s and women’s facial features—their attractiveness as well as the masculinity/femininity of their facial features—influence how other people treat them. Her current project centers on women’s career paths to understand how women navigate moments of decision. In particular, she is investigating the roles of fear, courage and serendipity in women’s working lives. O’Connor’s research has been honored by awards from leading academic organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Conflict Management and has been cited in a number of news outlets, including the Financial Times, Associated Press, and the Wall Street Journal.

O’Connor received a B.S. from Cornell University, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has held faculty and visiting faculty appointments at Rice University and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Dr Michael Parke’s research examines how organisations, teams and leaders can manage and use employee emotions and proactivity to improve creativity and overall effectiveness at work. His research, which has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Academy of Management Review, investigates how to foster a workplace climate that promotes creativity and encourages employees to speak up when problems arise without fear of negative repercussions.

Dr Parke’s fascination with maximising team strength extends beyond working hours – he has been an avid football player and coach for most of his life.

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Professor Randall S Peterson is Academic Director of the Leadership Institute.His current research activities include investigating: leading diverse teams, how CEO personality affects top management team interaction, leadership transitions in organisations, board effectiveness, conflict management in teams, and the effects of member personality on group interaction and performance. 

As Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, he teaches Executive Education and MBA programmes on leading teams and organisations, high performance teams, leadership assessment, and interpersonal skill development.

Professor Peterson teaches the ‘Leadership Week’ of the Accelerated Development Programme for transition into general management, as well as leadership on the Senior Executive Programme. He has been invited to teach and consult across the world, for companies such as Alcan, AREVA, Barclays, Braxton, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, IBM, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Roche.

He has edited the book, Leading and Managing People in Dynamic Organizations. His research has been published in the leading journals in the field, including Academy of Management Annals, Research in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Professor Peterson 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.

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Professor Madan Pillutla’s research uses social-psychological perspectives to understand organizational behaviours. Recent papers have examined gender differences in competitiveness and morality and the role that physical attractiveness plays in selection decisions.

Before joining London Business School, Professor Pillutla worked as a management trainee and factory personnel manager at ITC Limited (a subsidiary of British American Tobacco) in Chirala and Calcutta, India. He is an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Annals, a former Associate Editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; and is a member of the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review. He has been on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Perspective, the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Management.

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Dr Aneeta Rattan’s research interests focus on mindsets and intergroup relations (stereotyping, prejudice, and inequity). In one programme of research, she studies mindsets that promote belonging, commitment, and achievement among minorities and women in the face of stereotypes and implicit bias. In another programme of research, she investigates the mindsets that help individuals, organisations, and societies foster positive interactions among diverse group members (across gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation status), even after incidents of explicit bias.

Dr Rattan’s research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. She has received multiple research grants from major funding agencies in the United States. Her research has also been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Huffington Post among others.

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Eliot Sherman is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School. He conducts research on inequality in the workplace, primarily with respect to gender. His work examining whether female managers influence the wage gap between their male and female subordinates was published in the American Journal of Sociology. Other projects investigate the effects of remote working on job performance and work-family conflict; the extent to which bureaucracy in organisations helps or hinders women's career advancement; and whether women's earnings improve when their husbands perform an increased share of childcare.

Dr. Sherman has worked as a research associate at Harvard Business School and as an investigative analyst for the AON Corporation. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Dr Niro Sivanathan’s research and teaching have received international recognition.  His research explores how the psychology of the self – specifically our motivation to maintain the integrity of the self – influences decision-making. In addition, he explores how social hierarchy, through the psychological experience of power and status, regulates our judgment and behaviours.

His work has been presented at leading international conferences and published in the top international journals in the field of Management and Psychology, such as: Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. His research has also garnered international press coverage at CNN, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times and Forbes.

Before joining the London Business School in 2008, Niro was a visiting Assistant Professor at the Johnson School of Management, at Cornell University, and recently has been a visiting Scholar at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Sivanathan earned his PhD in Management & Organisations from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also holds an MSc in Management and a BA in Psychology (Honours) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.