Dr. Taya Cohen

Biography

Taya Cohen is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. She co-directs the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab and teaches graduate courses and executive education seminars on negotiation and managing people in teams. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of unethical behavior, identifying strategies to promote honesty and ethical decision-making in the workplace. Cohen has served as the Past-President of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) and participates on editorial review boards for journals in her field. Her work has been published in prestigious management and psychology journals, and she has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC, NPR, and TIME magazine. Cohen received several awards, including outstanding publication awards from the IACM, and was recognized as one of the 40 under 40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants in 2020. Her service at Carnegie Mellon includes a leadership role in the Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR). Cohen earned her B.A. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

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