Adam Daniel Galinsky (born 1969) is an
American social psychologist known for his
research
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on
leadership
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"Leadership" is a contested term. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the co ...
, power,
negotiations
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,
decision-making
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, diversity, and
ethics
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. He is Vikram S. Pandit Professor of
Business
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and Chair of Management Division at
Columbia Business School
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.
With
Maurice Schweitzer, he is co-author of ''Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both'' (2015).
Early life and education
Adam Galinsky is the son of Dr. David Galinsky and Dr. Maeda Galinsky, long-time professors of psychology and social work, respectively, at
University of North Carolina
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. In high school, he lived with a family in
Indonesia
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.
His twin brother is the documentary filmmaker
Michael Galinsky. Adam has collaborated with his brother as a producer on Michael's films.
Galinsky graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Psychology from
Harvard University
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. He received his M.A. and PhD in Social Psychology from
Princeton University
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.
Academic research and teaching
Prior to moving to Columbia Business School, Professor Galinsky's positions included Assistant Professorship of Management at
David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and serving as Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management.
Galinsky has published more than 190 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology.
As of April 15, 2015, his
h-index
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was 56 and his
i10-index was 117, with 12,322 citations.
Awards and recognition
Galinsky twice won the Chair's Core Course teaching award at Kellogg for teaching excellence on the topic of leadership. He also received a teaching award at Princeton University. In 2011, Professor Galinsky received the Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellow at Northwestern University, which is awarded to only one faculty member each year across the university.
''Friend and Foe''
Adam Galinsky has collaborated with
Maurice Schweitzer, Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, to write his first book ''Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both''. The book was published by
Random House
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on September 29, 2015.
See also
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Margaret Ann Neale
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Katherine W Phillips
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Charles A. O'Reilly III
References
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Living people
1969 births
American social psychologists
American male writers
Harvard College alumni
Princeton University alumni
Columbia Business School faculty