> Samir Nurmohamed, PhD Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton SchoolResearch Interests:Adversity, motivation, behavioral ethics, resilience, storytelling, punishment, whistleblowing, cover-ups, socialization, onboarding, injustice, stereotypes, stigma About Samir Samir Nurmohamed is an associate professor of management (with tenure) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines how people endure, respond, and persist when experiencing adversity at work. His work is organized around two primary streams: one on motivation, particularly the experiences of underdogs and the impact of low expectations, and another on behavioral ethics, examining how employees react to the ethical challenges and misconduct they encounter in organizational settings. His work has been published in his field’s top academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science. His findings have also been featured in prominent media outlets such as the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Athletic, TED WorkLife, Freakonomics Podcast, and NPR’s Hidden Brain. At Wharton, Professor Nurmohamed (or as he is known to his students, “Prof Nurmo”) teaches the core MBA and Executive MBA (WEMBA) course, Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership (MGMT 6100), as well as an elective he created, Power and Politics in Organizations (MGMT 7720). In addition, he has taught and worked with clients such as the World Economic Forum, Apple, Amazon, Deloitte, Salesforce, and the Cleveland Clinic on the topics of power, emotional intelligence, and resilience. At Wharton, his teaching has been recognized across the undergraduate, MBA, and WEMBA programs with multiple awards as one of the school’s top professors. He was also named as one of the Best 40 under 40 MBA Professors in the world by Poets & Quants for his pedagogical and scholarly contributions. He earned his PhD in Management and Organizations from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Huron University at the University of Western Ontario. For fun, he enjoys traveling the world, karaoke (particularly hip-hop music), cheering for Michigan and the Toronto Maple Leafs (despite the misery it often produces), and eating at both fancy and hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Philadelphia — his pick for the best pound-for-pound food city in America — with his wife, Salimah, and their two children (who are becoming little foodies…with strong opinions). 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