> 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 Professor Samir Nurmohamed is an award-winning tenured professor and researcher in the Management department at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Nurmohamed (or as he is known to his students, “Prof Nurmo”) teaches the MBA core course on the Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership, as well as courses on power and politics, emotional intelligence and resilience in our executive education, MBA, PhD and undergraduate programs, including prior programs with the OECD and World Economic Forum. At Wharton, he has received several teaching awards, including the Teaching Excellence Award, Excellence in Teaching for the Undergraduate Division Award, and MBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award. Professor Nurmohamed’s research examines how people endure, respond, and persist when experiencing adversity at work across topics such as motivation, behavioral ethics, power and influence. He has conducted his research using multiple methods such as field experiments, surveys and archival data in contexts such as leaders and employees in Fortune 500 corporations, job seekers at reemployment centers, and entrepreneurs seeking to bring new culturally contentious initiatives to the marketplace. His work has been published in academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Research in Organizational Behavior, and featured in practitioner outlets such as the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Athletic, and NPR’s Hidden Brain. He completed his PhD in Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan and earned his BA in Economics and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. For fun, he enjoys karaoke-ing to Drake and Kanye, cheering for Toronto and Michigan sports, traveling to new countries, and eating at both fancy and hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Philly with his wife, Salimah, and their toddler (who is becoming a little foodie…with strong opinions). 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