Alison Wood Brooks
O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation at Harvard Business School
Biography
Harvard Business School
Alison Wood Brooks is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches FIELD Foundations in the MBA required curriculum (RC), Negotiation in the MBA elective curriculum (EC), Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior in the PhD curriculum, and is affiliated with the Behavioral Insights Group at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
In her research, Professor Brooks studies the psychology of conversation--why we say things we shouldn''t and don''t say things we should--and how emotions influence how we think and interact with others, particularly in the workplace. Much of her work examines the behavioral consequences of anxiety, and how individuals can regulate their anxious feelings. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Economic Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, _and _Scientific American.
Professor Brooks holds a Ph.D. in Decision Processes from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor''s degree in Psychology and Finance from Princeton University.
Videos
Tech Talk: How Technology is Changing Communication
PON AI, Tech, and Negotiation Conference Session D: New Insights into Psychological Processes
BX2016 'Organizational Behavior' Breakout
Courses Taught
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