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Andrew Hafenbrack
- Associate Professor of Management and Organization Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow
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Education
- PhD INSEAD (2015)
- BS Carnegie Mellon University (2009)
Academic Expertise
- benefits of multi-cultural experiences
- creativity and innovation
- decision-making
- interventions
- mindfulness
- motivation and performance
- workplace civility
Current Research
- Benefits and drawbacks of meditating in the workplace, Stress responses to different types of leadership behaviors, Relational mobility and well-being, Effects of observing another person being compassionate, How to overcome cultural conditioning that constrains people.
Positions Held
- At University of Washington since 2019
- Assistant Professor, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, 2015-2019
Selected Publications
“On whether to meditate before a negotiation: Mindfulness slightly impairs value claiming in negotiation“
Hafenbrack, A.C., Barsade, S.G., Kinias, Z., & Falcão, H, (in press). Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.
“Following community norms or an internal compass? The role of prospective leaders’ social category membership in the differential effects of authentic and ethical leadership on stereotype threat“
Lagowska, U. G., Sobral, F. J. B. A., Jacob, J., Hafenbrack, A. C. & Goldszmidt, R., (2023). Journal of Applied Psychology.
“When Mindfulness Does — and Doesn’t — Help at Work“
Cameron, L., & Hafenbrack, A., (2022). Harvard Business Review.
“Better to Be Optimistic, Mindful, or Both? The Interaction between Optimism, Mindfulness, and Task Engagement“
Bunjak, A., Hafenbrack, A. C., Černe, M., & Arendt, J. F. W., (2022). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 95(3), pp. 595-623.
“Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Guilt and Prosocial Reparation“
Hafenbrack, A. C., LaPalme, M. L., & Solal, I., (2022). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 123(1), pp. 28–54.
“An unintended consequence of mindfulness“
Hafenbrack, A. C., (2022). The Washington Post.
“Helping people by being in the present: Mindfulness increases prosocial behavior“
Hafenbrack, A.C., Cameron, L. D., Spreitzer, G. M., Zhang, C., Noval, L. J., & Shaffakat, S., (2020). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, pp. 21-38.
“Mindfulness is demotivating“
Berinato, S., & Hafenbrack, A., (2019). Harvard Business Review, pp. 32-33.
“Hey boss, you don’t want your employees to meditate“
Vohs, K. D. & Hafenbrack, A. C., (2018). The New York Times.
“Mindfulness meditation impairs task motivation but not performance“
Hafenbrack, A. C. & Vohs, K. D, (2018). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, pp. 1-15.
“Mindfulness meditation as an on-the-spot workplace intervention“
Hafenbrack, A. C., (2017). Journal of Business Research, pp. 118-129.
““Going out” of the box: Close intercultural friendships and romantic relationships spark creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship“
Lu, J. G., Hafenbrack, A. C., Eastwick, P. W., Wang, D. J., Maddux, W. W., & Galinsky, A. D., (2017). Journal of Applied Psychology, pp. 1091-1108.
“Debiasing the mind through meditation: Mindfulness and the sunk-cost bias“
Hafenbrack, A. C., Kinias, Z., & Barsade, S. G., (2014). Psychological Science, pp. 369-376.
“Standing out as a signal to selfishness: Culture and devaluation of non-normative characteristics“
Kinias, Z., Kim, H. S., Hafenbrack, A. C., & Lee, J. J., (2014). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, pp. 190-203.
“Expanding opportunities by opening your mind: Multicultural engagement predicts job market success through longitudinal increases in integrative complexity“
Maddux, W. W., Bivolaru, E., Hafenbrack, A. C., Tadmor, C. T., & Galinsky, A. D., (2014). Social Psychological and Personality Science, pp. 608-615.
“Meditate for more profitable decisions“
Kinias, Z., Hafenbrack, A., & Williams, J., (2013). Forbes.
PhD Student Collaborators
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Faculty Service Award, UW Foster Evening MBA, 2023
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Portugal, 2023-2024
- PhD Mentoring Award, UW Foster Management & Organization Department, 2022
- Best Paper Award, Meaningfulness, Mindfulness, & Work Engagement Track, EURAM, 2020
- Best Scholarly Paper Award, Management, Spirituality, and Religion Division, AOM, 2019
- Best Paper Award, Meanings, Meaningfulness, & Mindfulness Track, EURAM, 2019
- Organizational Behavior SIG Best Reviewer Award, EURAM, Reykjavik, 2018
- World’s 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40, Poets & Quants, 2018
- Católica-Lisbon Distinguished Teaching Award in the Master’s in Management program, 2018
- 2nd Prize, Best-Paper-Award "Innovation Management", EBS Universität, Wiesbaden, 2017
- Four courses were the highest rated in respective program at Católica-Lisbon, 2016-2018
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, AOM, 2014, 2017
- Wharton-INSEAD Alliance Travel, Accommodation, and Research Awards, 2012-2014
- INSEAD PhD Fellowship, 2010-2015
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2009
- Dean’s List each semester, College and University Honors, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005-2009
- Carnegie Mellon University Institutional Scholarship, 2005-2009
- 2nd Place in Baritone Voice category, WIAA/WMEA Washington State Solo-Ensemble Contest, 2005
Academic Service
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Editorial Board Member, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Courses Taught
- MGMT500 - Leadership & Management, core course in evening MBA program
- MGMT547 - Successful Negotiations, elective course in full-time MBA program
- MGMT579 - Mindful Decision Making, elective course in full-time and evening MBA programs
- MGMT580 - Psychological Foundations of Organizational Behavior, core course in PhD program
- IBUS 570 - Study Tour to Portugal, elective course in full-time and evening MBA programs
- MGMT300 - Leadership and Organizational Behavior, core course in the undergraduate program at the UW Rome Center