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Phone: 519-888-4567 x41695

Location: E7 2446

Mark WeberÌýis the Special Advisor to the Provost on Leadership Strategy and Development as well as Professor of Management and Organizations.

Prior to joining the faculty of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Mark served on faculty and taught courses on leadership, negotiations and organizational behaviour to students at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, INSEAD and at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Mark’s research focuses on leadership, cooperation, negotiations, decision-making, and trust. He consults extensively and has provided training to executives and professionals in the automotive, education, healthcare, pharmaceutical, broadcast media, entertainment, telecommunications, professional services, and financial services industries, and in government at all levels.

Expertise:

• Negotiations
• Conflict Management
• Communication Skills & Storytelling
• Decision-making
• Trust
• Change Management

Teaching

• BET 600 Applied Leadership Skills for Entrepreneurs

Education

• PhD, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• MBA, Wilfrid Laurier University
• MA, McGill UniversityÌý
• BA, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ

Academic positions

• Special Advisor to the Provost on Leadership Strategy and Development, Professor of Management and Organizations. January 2024 - PresentÌý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý

• Eyton Director, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.Ìý January 2014 - December 2023
• Professor, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. July 2019 - Present
• Associate Professor, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. July 2012 - June 2019
• Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) & School of Accounting and Finance (SAF), University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.Ìý Also Director of the Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation. September 2010 – July 2012
• Associate Professor, Management Department, University of Toronto. Sept. 2010 – July 2012
• Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior & Management Departments,ÌýRotman School of Management and University of Toronto.Ìý July 2003 – August 2010
• Visiting Professor, Organizational Behaviour Department, INSEAD.Ìý 2005
• Visiting Lecturer, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Ìý2003
• Instructor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 2002

Research interests

• Leadership
• Cooperation and Collaboration
• Trust
• Negotiation
• Decision-making
• Change management

Selected publications

• Weber, J. M. (2019). Individuals matter, but the situation’s the thing: The case for a habitual situational lens in leadership and organizational decision-making. Organizational Dynamics.
• Weber, J. M. & Moore, C. (2014). Squires: Key followers and the social facilitation of charismatic leadership. Organizational Psychology Review, 4(3), 199-227.
• Kramer, L. & Weber, J. M. Ìý(2012).ÌýThis is your portfolio on winter: Seasonal affective disorder and risk aversion in financial decision-making (PDF). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(2), 193-199.Ìý
• Weber, J. M. (2012).ÌýSocial innovation and social enterprise in the classroom: Frances Westley on bringing clarity and rigor to program design (PDF). ÌýAcademy of Management Learning and Education, 11(3), 409-418.
• Carter, N. L. & Weber, J. M (2010).ÌýNot Pollyannas: Higher generalized trust predicts lie detection ability (PDF). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(3), 274-279.
• Weber, J. M. & Murnighan, J. K. (2008).ÌýSuckers or saviors? Consistent contributors in social dilemmas (PDF). ÌýJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95 (6), 1340-1353.
• Dyck, B. & Weber, J. M. (2006). ÌýConventional vs. radical moral agents: An exploratory empirical look at Weber’s moral-points-of-view and virtues (PDF). ÌýOrganization Studies, 27(3), pp. 429-450.
• Weber, J. M., & Messick, D. M. (2006). ÌýImproving managerial decision-making: Lessons from the experimental social dilemma literature (PDF). In P. A. M. Van Lange (Ed.), Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches.ÌýÌýMahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Weber,ÌýJ.ÌýM.,ÌýMalhotra, D., &ÌýMurnighan,ÌýJ.ÌýK. (2005). ÌýNormal acts of irrational trust: Motivated attributions and the trust development process (PDF).ÌýIn R. Kramer & B.ÌýStawÌý(Eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, 25,Ìýpp. 75-101.
• Weber,ÌýJ.ÌýM., &ÌýMessick, D.ÌýM. (2004). ÌýConflicting interests in social life: Understanding social dilemma dynamics (PDF).Ìý InÌýM.ÌýGelfandÌý&ÌýJ. Brett (Eds.), The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture. ÌýPalo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press,Ìýpp. 374-394.
• Murnighan,ÌýJ.ÌýK.,ÌýMalhotra, D., & Weber,ÌýJ.ÌýM. (2004).ÌýParadoxes of trust: Empirical and theoretical departures from a rational model (PDF).Ìý In R. Kramer &ÌýK. Cook (Eds.), Trust and distrust in organizations: Emerging perspectives, enduring questions. Russell Sage Books,Ìýpp. 293 - 326.
• Weber,ÌýJ.ÌýM.,ÌýKopelman, S., &ÌýMessick, D.ÌýM. (2004).ÌýA conceptual review of decision making in social dilemmas: Applying a logic of appropriateness (PDF).Ìý Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(3),Ìýpp. 281-307.
• Kopelman, S., Weber,ÌýJ.ÌýM., &ÌýMessick, D.ÌýM. (2002). ÌýFactors influencing cooperation in commons dilemmas: A review of experimental psychological research (PDF).Ìý In E.ÌýOstrom,ÌýT.ÌýDietz,ÌýN.ÌýDolsak,ÌýP.ÌýC. Stern, S.ÌýStonick, & E. U. Weber (Eds.), The drama of the commons. ÌýNational Research Council,Ìýpp. 113-156.

Selected awards and honours