Presenters

Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Director of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has highlighted the critical importance of managing outside, as well as inside, the team’s boundary. This research directly led to the concept of X-Teams as a vehicle for driving innovation within large organizations. Ancona’s work also focuses on the concept of distributed leadership and on the development of research-based tools, practices, and teaching/coaching models that enable organizations to foster creative leadership at every level. She is the author of the book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business School Press) and the related article, “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader” (Harvard Business Review). In addition to X-Teams, her studies of team performance also have been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and the Sloan Management Review. Her previous book, Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes (South-Western College Publishing), centers on the skills and processes needed in today’s diverse and changing organization. Ancona has served as a consultant on leadership and innovation to companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bose, Takeda, Li & Fung, OCP, And ASA. Ancona holds a BA and an MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in management from Columbia University.

Ethan Bernstein is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year MBA course in Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), a Ph.D. course on the craft of field research, and various executive education programs including Global Strategic Management. His teaching and research address topics related to leadership, global collaboration and teamwork, design thinking, and learning in organizations.

Professor Bernstein’s current research is focused on the relationship between transparency and productivity in organizations. He seeks to understand how observability affects learning, innovation, and performance—for both the observer and the observed. He also recently launched the Harvard Business School o-lab (http://tinyurl.com/hbsolab) and has an article forthcoming in the Harvard Business Review (July-August 2016) about the next generation of self-managing teams.

Dr Raina Brands is the Assistant Professor of Organisational Behavior at London Business School.  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.  She has a BPsychSci  from theUniversity of Queensland, MA  from the University of Queensland, MPhil  from Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge.

Henrik Bresman is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. His  research focuses on learning, leadership, and change in knowledge-intensive organizations, with particular emphasis on teams.  He is also the Academic Director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Center.

Ethan Burris is an Associate Professor of Management and the Chevron Centennial Fellow at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Graduate Advisor (Director of the PhD program for the Management Department) and Co-Director of the Center of Leadership Excellence for the McCombs School. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from Cornell University and has served as a Visiting Scholar at Google. His current research focuses on understanding 1) the antecedents and consequences of employees speaking up or staying silent in organizations, 2) leadership behaviors, processes and outcomes, and 3) the effective management of conflict generated by multiple interests and perspectives. In particular, he has investigated how leaders shape employees decisions whether to speak up or stay silent, and how these voice behaviors influence the performance of employees who offer their input and leaders and organizations who receive it.

Sandra Cha is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis International Business School. She conducts research on leadership and identity, focusing on two aspects: leading through shared values (which are a core component of identity) and leading in the context of demographic diversity. First, many organizations emphasize shared values—ranging from quality to mutual respect to the environment—in an attempt to inspire employees and focus them on strategic priorities. Values-based leadership can motivate and coordinate employees, without impinging on the autonomy needed for excellent performance under changing conditions. Second, in an era of rapid workforce diversification, individuals who are (or wish to become) leaders must be able to work effectively across lines of difference. / / Cha’s research has appeared in publications including the Journal of Applied Psychology and Harvard Business Review. She has received multiple awards for her research, including the Accenture Award for a significant contribution to management.

Cha holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, awarded jointly by Harvard Business School and the Harvard Psychology Department. She also earned an M.A. in Social Psychology and a B.A. in Psychology (magna cum laude) from Harvard University. Her past homes include La Paz, Bolivia; Manila, Philippines; Montreal, Canada; and Washington, D.C.

Dr. Andy Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Management in the School of Business at George Washington University. He teaches Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Change, and Leadership to undergraduates, MBA students, and executive audiences. Professor Cohen was recently honored with the Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award at GWSB.

Dr. Cohen holds a Ph.D in Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Applied Mathematics, Economics, and Philosophy from Brown University. His research centers on social networks, teams, and leadership in the workplace. He has examined these phenomena in various corporate settings, in public schools, within community service teams, among elite athletes/performers, and among college students. His work has been published in Organization Science and The Journal of Educational Change and presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the American Psychological Association.

Prior to embarking on his academic career, Dr. Cohen had a long career in the private sector as a member of the top management team at Capital One Financial Corporation and as a Partner at Oliver Wyman and Company, a global management consulting firm. Dr. Cohen is an avid downhill skier, and a budding cyclist and triathlete.

Stephen Courtright is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at Mays Business School. He received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Iowa and a B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University-Idaho. He conducts research on leadership and team effectiveness, with his studies being published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Management. His research has also been featured by The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Forbes, NBC News, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, U.S. News and World Report, and Huffington Post, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology. At Texas A&M, Dr. Courtright teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses on leadership development. He is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award in the Mays Business School, and was also named a Faculty Fellow for Innovation in High-Impact Learning Experiences by Texas A&M’s Center for Teaching Excellence. Most importantly, he and his wife, Nicole, are the proud parents of four wonderful and rambunctious children.

Rebecca L. Greenbaum is an Associate Professor in the Management Department of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. She holds the William S. Spears Chair in Business Administration. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include behavioral ethics, dysfunctional leadership, organizational justice, and workplace deviance. Her research appears in the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology.

Rebecca L. Greenbaum is an Associate Professor in the Management Department of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. She holds the William S. Spears Chair in Business Administration. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include behavioral ethics, dysfunctional leadership, organizational justice, and workplace deviance. Her research appears in the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology.

David R. Hekman is an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science, and he is focused on improving organizational health by examining sources and outcomes of virtuous leadership, remedies for pervasive workplace racial and gender biases, and sources of professional workers’ motivation. He earned his Ph.D at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Klodiana Lanaj is an assistant professor of management in the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Michigan State University in 2013. Klodiana’s main areas of research are leadership, team processes and performance, and motivation and self-regulation. In her past work, Klodiana has studied leader over-emergence in self-managing teams, individual and team-level factors that contribute to team performance, and the impact of daily interactions at work on employees’ self-regulatory resources and performance. Klodiana’s current work focuses on daily leader self-regulation and its implication for leader’s daily behaviors and well-being both at work and at home.

Ashleigh Shelby Rosette is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and a Center of Leadership and Ethics scholar at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is also a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences and a member of the Duke Corporate Education Global Learning Resource Network. In her primary area of research, she explores social and contextual factors that influence diversity-related perceptions. In her secondary area of research, negotiations, she examines various strategies that individuals employ to improve the negotiation process and negotiated outcome. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology; Psychological Science, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, Group Decision & Negotiation, and the Duke Journal of Gender and Public Policy, and her research has been recognized with various awards.  She is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Year in the Executive MBA programs at Fuqua.  She received her Bachelor in Business Administration degree and Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to entering academia, she worked for Arthur Andersen LLP as a Certified Public Accountant

Nancy Rothbard is the David Pottruck Professor of Management  and the Chair of the Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where she has been on the faculty since Fall, 2000. Dr. Rothbard was previously on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan. She began her career in organizational behavior as a Research Associate and case writer at the Harvard Business School. She has published her research in top academic research journals in her field on topics such as work engagement, emotions, work-family balance, and diversity, her current research focuses on how technology is changing work, examining issues of online social networking and gamification. Her research has been discussed in general media outlets such as ABC News, NBC News, Business Week, CNN, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Huffington Post, National Public Radio, New Yorker, US News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Professor Rothbard is an award-winning scholar and teacher who brings the latest thought leadership to her research and teaching. In 2010, she won the teaching and curricular innovation award for her role in the redesign of the core leadership and teamwork course for all incoming Wharton MBA students. She has taught students ranging from undergraduates, MBAs, Ph.D. students and executives. She is also faculty director for several Wharton Executive Education programs that focus on leadership.

Ben Tepper is the Fisher Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Human Resources in Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business. His research interests are in the areas of well-being, managerial leadership, and behavioral ethics. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the Southern Management Association.