Katherine Klein

Professor Katherine Klein is the Edward H. Bowman Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to coming to Wharton, Katherine was on the faculty of the University of Maryland and a visiting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

An award-winning organizational psychologist, Katherine has conducted extensive field research regarding a range of topics including team leadership, climate, conflict, social networks and effectiveness; organizational change and technology implementation; employee diversity; and employee responses to stock ownership and stock options. She has taught executive education, studied, and consulted with a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations including Charles Schwab, Rohm and Haas, North American Scientific, Medtronic, The Baltimore Shock Trauma Center, Penn Vet, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Korean Management Association.

Her research has been published in numerous top journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review. A former associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, she is currently an associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Katherine is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Katherine’s current research interests include race in organizations; leadership succession and social network change; and Rwanda’s reconciliation and reconstruction following the 1994 genocide.

Awards and Honors

• Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
• Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Method, 2012
• Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contributions Award, 2012 Description
• Fellow, Academy of Management, 2011
• Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for the Best Publication in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2008
• Saroj Parasuraman Award for the Outstanding Publication in Gender and Diversity, 2008
• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2008
• Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for the Best Publication in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2001