Margaret Neale’s research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. Her work has extended judgment and decision-making research from cognitive psychology to the field of negotiation. In particular, she studies cognitive and social processes that produce departures from effective negotiating behavior. Within the context of teams, her work explores aspects of team composition and group process that enhance the ability of teams to share the information necessary for learning and problem solving in both face-to-face and virtual team environments.[View Profile]

Deborah H Gruenfeld is a social psychologist whose research and teaching examine how people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. The author of numerous articles on the psychology of power, and on group behavior, Professor Gruenfeld has taught popular courses on these and related topics to MBA students and executives at Stanford and at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.[View Profile]

Jennifer Aaker's area of expertise lies in consumer psychology, focusing on how individuals across distinct cultural contexts can feel, think, and experience events in different (and sometimes very similar) ways. She also focuses on understanding emotions and the psychology of consumer-brand relationships. Aaker's research has been published in marketing and psychology journals, and she has been honored with a number of awards. She also sits on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research (Associate Editor), the Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.[View Profile]

Professor Frank Flynn’s research focuses on interpersonal relations in organizations. In particular, he studies three topics of interest: (1) How employees can develop healthy patterns of cooperation; (2) How the negative impact of racial and gender stereotyping in the workplace can be mitigated; and (3) Why certain individuals tend to emerge as leaders and assume positions of power in organizations. His work bridges the fields of management and social psychology, leading to scholarly as well as practical insights on organizational life.[View Profile]