Constance Hadley

Connie Noonan Hadley is an organizational psychologist and lecturer in the Management and Organizations Department at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. She teaches graduate courses in topics such as teamwork, leadership, and negotiations. She holds a PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard University, an MBA in human resource and strategic management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in social psychology from Princeton University. Previously, she worked in the fields of management consulting at McKinsey & Company and in marketing and operations at General Mills, Inc. Dr. Hadley’s research has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review,The Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, and Group & Organization Management, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wired>, and other media outlets. One of her favorite extracurricular activities is serving on the advisory board for The Internship Fund for Social Impact, a student-led initiative to support social impact internships around the world.

Education

• PhD, Harvard University, 2005
• MA, Harvard University, 2003
• MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
• BA, Princeton University, 1992

Research And Teaching Interests

Organizational behavior, including team dynamics, work engagement, psychological safety, negotiations, careers

Academic And Research Positions

Institute for Life at Work

• Founder and Chief Scientist 2022-present

Microsoft Research Lab - New England

• Consulting Researcher, New Future of Work Initiative 2022-present

Boston University

• Lecturer, Management and Organizations Department 2017-present

Stony Brook University

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Technology and Society 2013-2017

Harvard University

• Instructor and Visiting Fellow, Psychology Department 2009-2012
• Post-doctoral Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government 2006-2011
• Research Associate, Harvard Business School 2005-2006

Selected Publications

• Hadley, C., Mortensen, M. (2022). "Do We Still Need Teams?", Harvard Business Review
• Hadley, C. (2021). "Employees are lonelier than ever. Here’s how employers can help.", Harvard Business Review
• Hadley, C., Mortensen, M. (2021). "These four reasons for the loneliness of your teams.", Harvard Business Review France
• Hadley, C. (2021). "Workplace: What if we gave up some autonomy to get more sanity?", BU Today
• Hadley, C. (2021). Teresa M. Amabile: Innovative Scholar of Creativity and Work Environments. In Mary, Barnes., Asha, Gipson., William, Pasmore., David, Szabla. (Eds.), "The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers", Palgrave Macmillan
• Hadley, C., Mortensen, M. (2021). "Are Your Team Members Lonely?", MIT Sloan Management Review: MIT's journal of management research and ideas, 62 (2), 36-40
• Mortensen, M., Hadley, C. (2020). "How to Prepare Your Virtual Teams for the Long Haul", Harvard Business Review
• Hadley, C., Mortensen, M. (2020). "Life under Covid-19 Survey: Results Summary",
• Perlow, L., Hadley, C., Eun, E. (2017). "Escape the Meeting Trap: How Teams and Organizations Can Free Up Time for Meaningful Work", Harvard Business Review, 95 (4), 61-69
• Sommer, S., Howell, J., Hadley, C. (2016). "Keeping Positive and Building Strength", Group & Organization Management, 41 (2), 172-202
• Hadley, C. (2014). "Emotional roulette? Symmetrical and asymmetrical emotion regulation outcomes from coworker interactions about positive and negative work events", Human Relations, 67 (9), 1073-1094
• Hadley, C., Pittinsky, T., Sommer, S., Zhu, W. (2011). "Measuring the efficacy of leaders to assess information and make decisions in a crisis: The C-LEAD scale", The Leadership Quarterly, 22 (4), 633-648
• Amabile, T., Hadley, C., Kramer, S. (2002). "Creativity Under the Gun", Harvard Business Review

Selected Research Presentations

• Hadley, C. , Hyman, L. , Jasanoff, S. , Vidan, G. The Future of Work, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Panel, Webinar, 2020

Awards And Honors

• 2022, Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, MIT Sloan Management Review