Dr. Anna Mayo

Biography

Anna Mayo is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. Her research focuses on understanding effective teamwork in modern organizational settings. In the past few decades, organizations have increasingly relied on teams as fundamental structures to accomplish work, driven by rapidly evolving technologies and a need for specialization in dynamic environments. Her studies explore how teams operate, from cross-organizational partnerships to quickly formed project groups, regularly disbanding to meet shifting project demands. With a keen interest in how team dynamics can foster agility, Mayo examines the potential challenges these dynamics can pose for individual team members. She conducts her research in both laboratory and field settings, including healthcare and sales environments. Her work has been published in top-tier academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Mayo earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Theory from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and holds a B.A. in Psychology from Denison University. Prior to her role at Heinz College, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and she has experience working in the nonprofit human services sector.

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