About the Authors
Oana Branzei is Associate Professor of Strategy at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, and Visiting Professor at the Center for Positive Organizations and the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Oana holds a doctorate from the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, and an MBA from the University of Nebraska. Her academic projects explore the prosocial functions and positive impact of business, from social enterprises and social change initiatives to cross-sector innovation and community ecosystems. Her first edited book, Dialogue in Critical Management Studies, was published 2011.
Kim Cameron is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations in the Ross School of Business and Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. He received BS and MS degrees from Brigham Young University and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. His research on organizational virtuousness and other topics has been published in more than 130 scholarly articles and fifteen academic books. He was recently recognized as one of the top ten scholars in the organizational sciences whose work has been most frequently downloaded from Google.
Jane E. Dutton is the Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Jane’s current research focuses on how the quality of connections between people at work links to individual and organizational flourishing. Her research explores compassion and organizations, the power of positive identities, as well as energy and organizations. Her previous work was on the management of strategic change. She is a cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations.
Karen Golden-Biddle is the Questrom Professor in Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University School of Management. She currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research. Karen received her BA from Denison University and her MBA and PhD degrees from Case Western Reserve University. Her research and educational interests focus on organizational and system transformation with a special focus on understanding people’s collective efforts for change that tap into frontline experience, engage discovery to imagine desired possibilities, and foster human agency in bringing about real and desired change.
Adam M. Grant is Professor of Management and the Class of 1965 Chair at Wharton business school and the author of Give and Take (2013), a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling book that has been translated into more than two dozen languages. He received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He has been recognized as Wharton’s top-rated teacher, one of BusinessWeek’s favorite professors, one of the world’s top forty business professors under forty, and one of Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite social science writers. He was profiled in the New York Times magazine cover story, “Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?”
Erika Hayes James is the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education and Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. She conducts research in two primary areas: crisis leadership and workplace diversity, with an emphasis on women in leadership. Her research appears in numerous academic journals and popular press outlets. Professor James joined the Darden faculty in 2001. Before her Darden appointment, she served on the faculty at the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and the Goizuetta Business School at Emory University, and was a visiting faculty member at the Harvard Business School.
Shirli Kopelman is a leading researcher, expert, and educator in the field of negotiations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Kopelman is also Faculty Director of Business Practice at the Center for Positive Organizations and Executive Director of the International Association for Conflict Management. Her research focuses on a positive process of mindful and strategic alignment of emotions, and its power to transform social exchange beyond an instrumental negotiation task to cocreation and generation of extraordinary success and well-being. Kopelman received awards for her cuttingedge negotiation research and for her outstanding achievements in the classroom.
Ramaswami Mahalingam is a cultural psychologist teaching at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Personality and Social Contexts program. He is also affiliated with Women’s Studies and Organizational Studies programs. His research focuses on mindfulness, leadership, and creativity. His current research examines the role of mobile technology in cultivating mindfulness. He has developed the mobile app Mindfulness Manager. Using the app, he is conducting an intervention study in a variety of organizational contexts. Integrating research on mindfulness and intersectionality, he has been investigating the relationship between critical intersectional awareness and mindfulness. He teaches an undergraduate course on mindfulness.
David M. Mayer is Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He conducts research, teaches, and consults in the areas of leadership and ethics. His research focuses on how leaders help create an environment that can discourage unethical behavior and promote helpful behavior. Drawing on this research, Dave works with individuals and organizations to improve their ability to lead ethically and to help improve the interpersonal dynamics of their employees. His research has been published in the top scholarly journals focusing on leadership and ethics, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology, and he is currently an associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal. He has worked with a variety of companies on these issues, such as the Ethics Resource Center, Giant Eagle, Humana, Lockheed Martin, Personnel Decisions Research Institute, P.H.I. Consulting Group, Schwan’s, and SunTrust.
Christine Porath is Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Porath received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and taught for nine years at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Her research focuses on leadership, organizational culture, and change. She focuses not only on the effects of bad behavior, but also how organizations can create a more positive environment where people can thrive. Christine is coauthor of the book The Cost of Bad Behavior. Much of her recent work focuses on the benefits of civility and thriving.
Robert E. Quinn holds the Margaret Elliot Tracey Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and serves on the faculty of Organization and Management at the Ross Business School. He is one of the cofounders and the current faculty codirector of the Center for Positive Organizations. Bob’s research and teaching interests focus on leadership, organizational change, and effectiveness. He has published sixteen books on these subjects. He is particularly known for his work on the competing values framework. He has thirty years of experience consulting with major corporations and government agencies.
Gretchen M. Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is the codirector of the Center for Positive Organizations. Her research focuses on employee empowerment and leadership development, particularly within a context of organizational change and decline. Her most recent research is examining how organizations can enable thriving and enable employees’ full potential. She has been elected to leadership positions in the Academy of Management and the Western Academy of Management.
Laura Morgan Roberts is an author, a professor, a researcher, a leadership development coach, and an organizational consultant. She is Professor of Psychology, Culture, and Organization Studies in Antioch University’s PhD program in Leadership and Change. She is also a core faculty affiliate of the Center for Positive Organizations. A thought leader in the areas of authenticity, identity, diversity, strengths, and value creation, Laura coedited Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations with Jane M. Dutton. Laura earned her MA and PhD (Organizational Psychology) from the University of Michigan and BA (Psychology) from University of Virginia.
Scott Sonenshein is Associate Professor of Management at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where he teaches courses in change and leadership. His studies examine the resourceful actions of employees to advance organizational and social/ethical change. He has conducted research in settings ranging from fashion to food trucks, banks to booksellers, and entrepreneurs to environmentalists. This work illuminates the skill, agency, and motivation of individuals to contribute to change and the corresponding organizational practices that foster these outcomes. He currently serves as an associate editor at the Academy of Management Journal.
Anjan V. Thakor is the John E. Simon Professor of Finance, Director of the PhD program, and Director of the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research at the Olin Business School, Washington University, in St. Louis. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University. His previous university faculty appointments include Michigan, Indiana, Northwestern, and UCLA. His areas of research, teaching, and consulting interest are asymmetric information, corporate finance, banking, and economics of higher purpose. He has published research articles in leading economics and finance journals, and in 2008, he was recognized as the fourth most prolific researcher globally in finance over the past fifty years.
Lynn Perry Wooten is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. In this role, she is responsible for developing and implementing transformational educational experiences for Ross undergraduate students inside and outside of the classroom. She teaches organizational behavior, nonprofit management, and strategic consulting courses. Professor Wooten conducts research in the areas of positive organizing routines, diversity management, crisis leadership through resilience and organizational learning, and educational and leadership development of undergraduate students. Her research appears in academic journals, monographs, and popular press outlets.
Amy Wrzesniewski is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale University’s School of Management. Professor Wrzesniewski earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has won the IBM Faculty Award for her research, in addition to awards for her undergraduate, graduate, and executive teaching. Her research focuses on how people make meaning of their work in challenging contexts (e.g., stigmatized occupations, virtual contexts, absence of work), and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling.