Roshni Raveendhran
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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Education: B.A., University of Texas at Arlington; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Roshni Raveendhran is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior Area at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a Faculty Fellow with the Batten Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management) from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
Roshni’s research examines the future of work, with a particular focus on the psychological underpinnings of the human–technology relationship. She investigates how emerging technologies transform the way people work, and how organizations can leverage these emerging technologies to generate positive impact for people, organizations, and society. Her work has been published in leading academic journals—including Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Marketing Letters, and Computers in Human Behavior—as well as practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. It has also been featured widely in the media, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CNN, Fortune, Forbes, and Business Insider.
Her scholarship has earned numerous distinctions, including the Academy of Management’s Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior Award (2020) and finalist recognition in the INFORMS Best Dissertation Competition (2017).
At Darden, Roshni teaches Minds and Machines, a forward-looking MBA elective on how leaders can effectively leverage AI, as well as Negotiations. She has also taught the MBA core course Leading Organizations. She has been recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40 (2021), received the Frederick S. Morton Leadership Award twice for her exceptional mentorship of student leaders, and was honored with Darden’s Faculty Diversity Award for her contributions to the Darden community.
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Selected Publications
Raveendhran, R., & Fast, N.J. (2024). When and Why Consumers Prefer Human-Free Behavior Tracking Products. Marketing Letters.
Perrigino, M., Raveendhran, R., & Ryu, J. (2024). Technology Use for Nonwork Purposes at Work: A Behavior-Focused Integrative Review. Academy of Management Annals.
Jago, A., Raveendhran, R., Fast, N.J., Gratch, J. (2024). Algorithmic Management Diminishes Status: An Unintended Consequence of Using Machines to Perform Social Roles. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Kim-Schmid, J., & Raveendhran, R. Where AI Can - and Can't - Help Talent Management. (2022). Harvard Business Review.
Raveendhran, R., Kim, T. & Ryu, J.W. The Role of Digital Channels in Predicting Objective and Subjective Negotiation Outcomes. (2022). Technology, Mind, and Behavior.
Raveendhran, R. & Fast, N.J. Humans Judge, Algorithms Nudge: The Psychology of Behavior Tracking Acceptance. (2021). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
*Selected media mentions: The Wall Street Journal, CNN Business
Perrigino, M. & Raveendhran, R. (2020). Managing remote workers during quarantine: Insights from organizational research on boundary management. Behavioral Science and Policy.
*Selected media mentions: Virginia Public Radio, UVA Today
Raveendhran, R., Fast, N.J., & Carnevale, P.J. (2020). Virtual (Freedom From) Reality:Evaluation Apprehension and Leaders’ Preference for Communicating Through Avatars. Computers in Human Behavior (Impact Factor: 6.829).
*Selected media mentions: Business Insider, Forbes India, WIRED UK
Hernandez, M., Raveendhran, R., Weingarten, E., & Barnett, M. (2019). How algorithms can diversify the startup pool. MIT Sloan Management Review. Feature article in print Fall 2019 issue.
*Academy of Management – OB Division 2020 Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication
Raveendhran, R., & Fast, N. J. (2019). Technology and social evaluation: Opportunities and challenges. In R. N. Landers (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press.