Don Ferrin

Education

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management 2000 Strategic Management and Organization Concentration in Organizational Behavior Dissertation Chair: Srilata Zaheer
• C.P.A. State of California
• B.Sc. California State University Long Beach 1989 1986 Business Administration Concentration in Accountancy

Companies

• Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Singapore Management University (2004)
• Assistant Professor University at Buffalo (1999 — 2004)
• Audit and Technical Manager Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (1989 — 1993)
• Senior Auditor Deloitte, Haskins & Sell (1987 — 1989)

Research Focus

Trust: Trust in Leadership, Determinants and Consequences of Trust, Trust Development Processes, Organizational Trust Networks, Trust in the Context of Negotiation, Trust Across Cultures, Trust Violations and Trust Repair.

Courses Taught

• Ph.D.: Organisational Behaviour;
• D.B.A.: Research on Trust within Organisations
• EMBA, Executive Education, and Corporate: Leading People and Organisations; Leading with Trust; Negotiating in Business; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Change;
• Power and Influence; Ethics; Groups and Teams; Talent Management; Conflict Management; International Residency (China; South America).
• MBA, Specialized Masters, & Undergraduate: Leading People and Organisations;
• Negotiating in Business; Management of People in the Workplace; Power and Influence;
• Negotiating Within One’s Organization; International Management.

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• Emerald Citations of Excellence Award (recognition as one of the 35 most influential articles published in the last fifteen years in the top 300 business and management journals), 2014
• Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Award (Recognition as one of the top 50 articles published in the top 300 business and management journals in terms of proven impact since its publication in 2008), 2012
• Most Influential Article Award (2003-2006), Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2011
• Keynote Speaker, Inaugural Seminar of the Nordic Research Network on Trust In and Between Organisations, Joensuu, Finland, 24 May, 2011
• Keynote Speaker, Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology, Brighton, UK, 14 January, 2010
• Best Published Paper Award for 2009, Information Systems Research, 2010
• Best Paper Award for 2007, Group & Organization Management, 2008
• Most Distinguished Teacher Award Nominee (1 of 7), SMU, 2008
• Keynote Speaker, Fourth European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) Workshop on Trust Within and Between Organisations, Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25 October, 2007
• Most Innovative Teacher Award Nominee (1 of 7), SMU, 2007
• Outstanding Article Award for Best Article Published in 2004, International Association for Conflict Management, 2006
• Lee Kwan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence, SMU, 2006
• Keynote Speaker, Economic and Social Research Series Seminar on Building Maintaining, and Repairing Trust Across Cultures, Durham University, UK, 26 June, 2006
• Most Inspiring Teacher Award Nominee (1 of 7), SMU, 2006
• Best Empirical Paper Award, Conflict Management Division, 2005 Annual Academy of Management Meeting, 2005
• International Scholar’s Presentation, Korean Academy of Leadership, Seoul, Korea, November, 2004
• Best Paper – First Runner-Up Award, 24th Annual International Conference on Information Systems, 2003
• Barry M. Richman Best International Dissertation Award, International Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2000
• Finalist, Richard N. Farmer Best Dissertation Award, Academy of International Business, 2000
• Carlson School of Management Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1997
• R. K. Gaumnitz Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 1997
• Ellis DuPuy Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1995
• University of Minnesota Graduate School First Year Fellowship, 1994