Ashley Hardin

Ashley Hardin

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Ashley Hardin joined the Organizational Behavior Area at the Olin Business School in the fall of 2017. She received her PhD in management and organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, where she developed her interests in interpersonal dynamics at work. Her core research agenda centers around personal knowledge (i.e., information about the nonwork lives of colleagues) within organizations, advancing our theoretical understanding of how individuals manage their work-life boundaries and how those choices impact interpersonal relationships within the workplace. Her portfolio of work is designed to answer four particular questions: how individuals learn about colleagues’ lives outside of work; how this knowledge alters relationships at work; what the individual, team, and organizational consequences are of the resulting interpersonal dynamics; and finally how the organizational context influences these processes.

Prior to pursuing her PhD and joining Olin, Professor Hardin worked as a Senior Associate Consultant for Bain & Company and the Bridgespan Group.

Area of Expertise

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Organizational Behavior, Team Development, Negotiation

Education

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• Ph D 2017, University of Michigan
• BA 2009, University of Michigan

Academic/Professional Activities

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• Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Review
• Editorial Review Board Member, Organization Science
• Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Journal
• Editorial Review Board Member, Human Relations

Awards/Honors

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• Executive MBA Reid Teaching Award, 2026
• Executive MBA Reid Teaching Award, 2025
• Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal, 2024
• Professional MBA Reid Teaching Award - Elective, 2023
• Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award, Emerson, 2020
• Gladys D. and Walter R. Stark Fellow for Academic Excellence, 2016
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, MOC Division, 2016
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, OB Division, 2016

Research Interests

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Relationships, Affect, Work-Life Boundaries, Unethical Behavior

Selected Publications

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• " A window into coworkers' worlds: The relational outcomes of learning vivid, unintentional, and nonwork-related information about coworkers", Academy of Management Journal, with Beth Schinoff, Kris Byron, Rachel Balven, 2024
• "The more you know: The impact of personal knowledge on interpersonal treatment at work", Organization Science, 2024
• "How Policy Implementation Impacts Employee Suffering at Work: An Exploration of Medical Leaves of Absence ", with Liza Barnes, Christina Lacerenza
• "Manipulation in organizational research: On executing and interpreting designs from treatments to primes", Organizational Research Methods, with Kira Schabram, Chris Myers
• "Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences", Academy of Management Journal, Issue 6, 1804-1834, with L.P. Tost, J.W. Robertson, F. Gino, 2022
• "Show me the ... family: How photos of meaningful relationship reduce unethical behavior at work", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 93-108, with C. Bauman, D. Mayer, 2020
• "Why You Should Encourage Employees to Display Family Photos at Work", Harvard Business Review, with Chris Bauman, David Mayer, 2020
• "The interpersonal costs of dishonesty: How dishonest behavior reduces individuals’ ability to read others’ emotions", Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Issue 9, 1557-1574, with J. J. Lee, B. Parmar, F. G. Gino, 2019
• "Cooperation in multicultural negotiations: How the cultures of people with low and high power interact", Journal of Applied Psychology, Issue 5, 721-730, with S. Kopelman, C. G. Myers, L. P. Tost, 2016
• "Respect as an engine for new ideas: Linking respectful engagement, relational information processing, and creativity among employees and teams", Human Relations, Issue 6, 1021-1047, with A. Carmeli, J. E. Dutton, 2015