
Office: 439
PACCAR HallEmail: ahaf(at)uw.edu
Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Box: 353226
Seattle, WA 98195
Andrew Hafenbrack
- Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow
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Education
- PhD INSEAD (2015)
- BS Carnegie Mellon University (2009)
Academic Expertise
- creativity
- culture
- decision making
- innovation
Current Research
- When mindfulness can increase or reduce prosocial behavior, Stress responses to leadership behaviors, Cultural consequences of innovation, How to best induce state mindfulness and its effects on psychological resources, Relational mobility and well-being
Positions Held
- At University of Washington since 2019
- Assistant Professor, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, 2015-2019
Selected Publications
- “Better to Be Optimistic, Mindful, or Both? The Interaction between Optimism, Mindfulness, and Task Engagement“Journal Article:Bunjak, A., Hafenbrack, A. C., Černe, M., & Arendt, J. F. W., (in press). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,
- “Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Guilt and Prosocial Reparation“Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A. C., LaPalme, M. L., & Solal, I., (in press). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
- “Helping people by being in the present: Mindfulness increases prosocial behavior“Journal Article: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“Journal Article:Berinato, S., & Hafenbrack, A., (2019). Harvard Business Review, pp. 32-33.
- “Mindfulness meditation impairs task motivation but not performance“Journal Article: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“Journal Article: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“Journal Article: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“Journal Article: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“Journal Article: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“Journal Article:Maddux, W. W., Bivolaru, E., Hafenbrack, A. C., Tadmor, C. T., & Galinsky, A. D., (2014). Social Psychological and Personality Science, pp. 608-615.
PhD Student Collaborators
Honors and Awards
- 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