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 very fortunate. The course that I have taught the most here at the Johnson School has been negotiations, and so I always start my class by telling my students how I came to be interested in negotiations, which was in my early IBM experience. I also have taught classes on leadership and teams....(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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