Education
Dr. Grant
received
his Ph.D.
and M.S. from the
University
of Michigan
in
organizational
psychology
and his B.A.
from Harvard
University,
magna cum
laude with
highest
honors, Phi Beta
Kappa
honors, and
the John
Harvard
Scholarship
for highest
academic
achievement.
Research
Dr.
Grant's
research
focuses on
work
motivation,
prosocial
helping and
giving
behaviors,
job design
and meaningful
work,
employee initiative
and proactivity,
leadership, and burnout.
He has
earned
numerous
prestigious
awards for
distinguished
scholarly
achievement,
including the
Cummings
Scholarly
Achievement
Award for
early-to-mid-career
contributions
from the
Academy of
Management, the
Distinguished
Scientific
Award for
Early Career
Contribution
from the
American
Psychological
Association,
the
Distinguished
Early Career
Contributions
Award and
the Owens
Scholarly
Achievement
Award for
the best
publication
in the field
from the
Society for
Industrial
and
Organizational
Psychology, and a
fellowship
from the
National
Science
Foundation.
His
pioneering
research has
introduced
evidence-based
techniques
that
increase
performance
and reduce
burnout
among
engineers
and
salespeople,
enhance call
center
productivity,
and motivate
helping and
safety
behaviors
among
doctors,
nurses, and
lifeguards. He has
published
more than 50
articles in
a wide range
of leading
management
and
psychology
journals,
such as the
Academy of
Management
Journal,
Academy of
Management
Review,
Journal of
Personality
and Social
Psychology,
Psychological
Science, Organization
Science,
Journal of
Applied
Psychology,
Organizational
Behavior and
Human
Decision
Processes,
Research in
Organizational
Behavior,
and
Harvard
Business
Review.
He has
served on
the AMR,
AMJ,
and JAP
editorial
boards, and
he is
currently an
Associate
Editor at
AMJ.
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Teaching and Consulting
Dr.
Grant has
taught
executive
education,
consulted,
and
presented
for clients
such as
Google,
Merck, the
NFL, the
U.S. Air
Force,
Citigroup, IBM, Yahoo!, Medco, Accenture, Time-Warner
Cable, the
Royal Bank
of Scotland,
United
Health
Group, Havas,
Russell
Reynolds
Associates,
JP Morgan,
GlaxoSmithKline, Duke
Energy,
Novo
Nordisk,
Lincoln
Financial, Grant
Thornton,
the American
Financial
Services
Association,
the
U.S.
Dept.
of
Agriculture, and the U.S.
Army and
Navy. At
Wharton, he has
been honored
with the
Excellence
in Teaching
Award for
all of his
classes: the
MBA teamwork
and
leadership
core, the
MBA
negotiations
elective,
and the
undergraduate
organizational
behavior
elective. In
2012, he was
the single
highest-rated
professor in
the Wharton
MBA program,
and he has also
earned
the Goes
Above and
Beyond the
Call of Duty
MBA Teaching
Award and been
recognized
as one of
the world's
top 40
business
professors
under 40. He
has designed
several
experiential
learning activities
based on
The
Apprentice
in
which
students
have raised
over
$118,000 for
the
Make-A-Wish
Foundation
while
developing
leadership,
influence,
networking,
and
collaboration
skills.
Media
His studies
have been
featured in
outlets such
as
The
New York
Times,
The Wall
Street
Journal,
USA Today,
BusinessWeek,
Time
Magazine,
Fast Company,
The Daily
Telegraph,
CNN,
Forbes,
The
Financial
Times,
and the
Freakonomics
blog,
and profiled
in
bestselling
books such
as
Drive: The
Surprising
Truth About
What
Motivates Us
by Daniel
Pink and
Quiet: The
Power of
Introverts
in a World
That Can't
Stop Talking
by Susan
Cain.
Additional
Before
graduate
school, Dr.
Grant worked
at Let’s Go
Publications,
where he set
multiple
company
records for
advertising
sales and earned the
Manager of
the Year
award. He
is a former
All-State
and
All-American
springboard
diver and
performed
for over a
decade as a
professional
magician. |
