Melissa Thomas Hunt
Associate Professor at Darden School of Business
Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence at Owen Graduate School of Management
Schools
- Owen Graduate School of Management
- Darden School of Business
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Biography
Darden School of Business
Education: B.S.E., Princeton University; MS, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Melissa Thomas-Hunt teaches the "Bargaining and Negotiations" course. Her teaching and research activities focus on conflict management, negotiation and inclusive leadership within global teams and organizations. She has also spent numerous years teaching negotiations to executives. Her current research activities focus specifically on the effects of status and power on negotiation processes and outcomes and the evaluation and integration of expertise within diverse groups.
Her publications have appeared in Research on Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Management Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Research on Managing Groups and Teams.
Prior to coming to Darden, Thomas-Hunt was an associate professor at Cornell's Johnson School, where she was on the faculty for nine years. She also taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Washington University's Olin School of Business and Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Thomas-Hunt received her master's and doctoral degrees from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University.
Owen Graduate School of Management
Research Interests/Areas of Expertise
Inclusive Leadership, Conflict Management and Negotiation
Biography
Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt is the vice provost for inclusive excellence at Vanderbilt University.
Leadership
Provost Thomas-Hunt is responsible for helping to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in the trans-institutional research and educational missions of Vanderbilt University, building on the numerous efforts currently underway in the provost’s office and across academic affairs to create a welcoming environment for students, faculty and academic staff. Prior to Vanderbilt, she served as senior associate dean and global chief diversity officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Teaching
Provost Thomas-Hunt has spent numerous years teaching negotiation to executives, and served as the faculty leader for The Women’s Leadership Program.
Research Interests
Provost Thomas-Hunt research interests focus on conflict management, negotiation and inclusive leadership within global teams and organizations. Her current research activities focus specifically on the effects of status and power on negotiation processes and outcomes and the evaluation and integration of expertise within diverse groups.
Education
PH.D, Organization Behavior, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, 1997
M.Sc., Organization Behavior, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, 1995
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1989
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Darden Faculty Profile: Melissa Thomas-Hunt
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