Faculty Directory

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization

Education

PhD Cornell University (2020)

Academic Expertise

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2023

Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (2020-2023)

Research assistant, Cornell University (2013-2020)

Selected Publications

“Do Low-Power Individuals Really Compete Less? An Investigation of Covert Competition“ (PDF)
Zhong, Y & Li, H., (2024). Organization Science.

“How virtue, competence, and dominance conjointly shape status attainment at work: Integrating person-centered and variable-centered approaches“ (PDF)
Bai, F., Lin, J., Yan, J., & Li, H., (2024). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

“My Boss is Younger, Less Educated, and Shorter Tenured: When and Why Status (In)congruence Influences Promotion System Justification“ (PDF)
Li, H., Wang, X., Williams, M, Chen., Y.-R., & Brockner, J., (2023). Journal of Applied Psychology.

“Powerlessness also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying“ (PDF)
Li, H., Chen, Y.-R., & Hildreth, J. A., (2023). Organization Science.

“Converging Tides Lift All Boats: Consensus in Evaluation Criteria Boosts Investments in Firms in Nascent Technology Sectors“ (PDF)
Shen, X., Li, H., & Tolbert, P. S., (2023). Organization Science.

“The impact of sufferers’ wealth status on pain perceptions: Its development and relation to allocation of healthcare resources“ (PDF)
Shu, Y, Li, H., Ma, S., & Bian, L., (2023). Developmental Science.

“A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Power Hierarchy and Status Hierarchy Interact to Impact Team Performance“ (PDF)
Hays, N., Li, H., Yang, X., Oh, J. K., Yu, A., Chen, Y.-R., Hollenbeck, J. R, & Jamieson, B. B., (2022). Organization Science.

“Initial and Longer-Term Change in Unit-Level Turnover Following Leader Succession: Contingent Effects of Outgoing and Incoming Leader Characteristics“ (PDF)
Li, H., Hausknecht, J. P., & Dragoni, L., (2020). Organization Science.

“Not All Leaving Is Created Equal: Differentiating the Factors of Organizational and Occupational Turnover Intentions“
Li, H., Yu, K., Huang, Y., & Jin, X., (2019). Journal of Personnel Psychology, Vol. 18(1), pp. 10-22.

PhD Student Collaborators

Mateo Roldan, Zeren Li

Honors and Awards

PhD Program Mentoring Award, 2025, Foster School of Business

Summer DEI Research Award Grant, 2024 Foster School of Business, Consulting and Business Development Center - $10,000/year for three years

Ascendant Scholar, 2024. Western Academy of Management

Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching CIOS Honor Roll, Spring 2023. Georgia Institute of Technology

Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching CIOS Honor Roll, Spring 2021. Georgia Institute of Technology

Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching CIOS Honor Roll, Fall 2021. Georgia Institute of Technology

Thank-a-Teacher Award, 2022. Georgia Institute of Technology.

Thank-a-Teacher Award, 2021. Georgia Institute of Technology.

Conference Theme Paper Award, 2021. International Association for Chinese Management Research

Best Micro Paper Award, 2021. International Association for Chinese Management Research

Best Micro Paper Award, 2018. International Association for Chinese Management Research

Grote MS’77 PhD’81 Johnson Professional Scholarship (merit-based, $4,000), 2019. Cornell University

Advanced consortium on cooperation, conflict, and complexity fellow, 2018. International Association of Conflict Management

Best Student Paper Award (Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division), 2015. Academy of Management

Student Transnational Research Award (Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division), 2015. Academy of Management

Bei Shan Tang Foundation Fellowship (merit-based, $ 45,000/year), 2012. Stanford University

Academic Service

Editorial board member, Management and Organization Review (2024-present)

Editorial board member, Organization Science (2023-present)

Representative-At-Large, Conflict Management (CM) Division of the Academy of Management (2023-present)