Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Johnson School at Cornell University. Professor Thomas-Hunt's research activities focus on conflict management, negotiation, and team management processes. Her current research examines the contribution of expertise within diverse groups and the effects of relationships on negotiation processes and outcomes. Her publications have appeared in Research on Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Social Justice Research, and Research on Managing Groups and Teams. Professor Thomas-Hunt comes to the Johnson School from a position as assistant professor at the Olin School of Business, Washington University. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked as an account marketing representative at IBM. Melissa Thomas-Hunt received her master's and doctoral degrees from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University.
I am primarily an experimentalist, which means that I think about questions and problems and then I try and devise ways to systematically test them. I use different populations of people and expose them to different ideas or stimuli, and then I see what they do - how they react, how they form evalu...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Melissa Thomas-Hunt States Importance of Understanding Your Customer When You Are In Sales
Melissa Thomas-Hunt Discusses Impact of Watching Client Merger Which Led To Interest in Organizational Behavior
Melissa Thomas-Hunt Discusses Characteristics That Students Should Look For When Applying to MBA Programs
Melissa Thomas-Hunt Discusses Decision To Come To Cornell University As A Faculty Member
Melissa Thomas-Hunt Discusses Interest In Teaching On Topics of Negotiations, Leadership and Teams
Melissa Thomas-Hunt States Women Have More Difficulty In Negotiating and Self-Promoting
Melissa Thomas-Hunt Discusses Impact of Multiple Factors - Including Socioeconomic Factors - On Perception
