Darden has hired Melissa Thomas-Hunt to join the faculty as a tenured associate professor. She will be a member of the Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LOB) area and also will be a key player in the Negotiations area, teaching elective courses and leading research projects on the topic.
Thomas-Hunt earned her PhD from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1997. She has been on the faculty at the Olin School of Business at Washington University and most recently was a tenured associate professor in the Johnson School of Management at Cornell. The focus of her research includes the impact of status, the perception of teams by outsiders, and information exchange between negotiators.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals including Management Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has taught negotiations electives in the MBA program and the Executive MBA Program. Her MBA teaching also includes the core course in leading organizations and an elective in leading teams. She has been active in teaching negotiation programs in executive education at Cornell and in custom company programs.
Founded in 1955, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business improves society by developing principled leaders in the world of practical affairs.
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