Michael W. Morris

He has taught briefly in London, Paris, Barcelona, Moscow, Siena, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Beijing.  

Michael Morris holds the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at Columbia Business School. He is also an associated professor of the Psychology Department of Columbia University. He teaches MBA and executive-level classes on leadership, teamwork, communication, negotiation, and decision-making. He designed Columbia’s Leadership Lab, which translates emerging research insights into new forms of leadership training. He chaired the school’s Organizational Culture Committee and serves on the university’s Committee on Global Thought and on the President’s advisory committee on strategic engagement and institutional credibility. Outside of academia, his consulting and training work brings him into contact with many private and public sector leaders from around the world.

In his research career, Professor Morris has published over 200 articles in the leading psychology and management journals on topics such as individual decision-making, interpersonal influence, and social networks. His early research on culture and cognition played a key role in the blossoming of the field of cultural psychology. His scientific papers have received international awards from scholarly societies in the fields of social psychology decision-making, public policy, management, human resources, marketing, and others. He currently serves as a consulting editor at Journal of International Business Studies and Management and Organization Review and a guest editor at Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. He has served on National Academy of Science and National Science Foundation panels advising the Armed Services about managing cultural differences.

Prior to joining the Columbia in 2001, Professor Morris was a tenured Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Psychology Department. He served as a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 and at the University of Hong Kong in 2000 and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2008. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1993 and B.A from Brown in 1986.

Recent recognitions:

Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, International Association for Chinese Management Research, 2025

Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award, American Psychological Association, 2025

PROSE Award, Assoc. of American Publishers, 2025, Finalist in Business Category

Prize for Best Book on Community, Zócalo Public Square, 2025, Finalist

Business Book of the Year, FT /Schroders, 2024, Shortlist

Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2023

Best Paper in Management Education, Academy of Management, 2022

Responsible Research in Management Award, Academy of Management Fellows, 2021