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Ruth Wageman

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Ruth Wageman was a Visiting Scholar at Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University for the Spring 2006 semester. She has also been an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Wageman earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Joint Doctoral Program in Organizational Behavior in 1994. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Columbia University in 1987, and returned there to join the faculty of the Graduate School of Business in 1992, making her the first female alum of Columbia College to join Columbia’s faculty.

An expert in organizational behavior, Professor Wageman's current research topics include: designing and leading effective task-performing teams, reward system design for cooperation, coaching teams, and uses and misuses of power in groups, individual conditions that influence the effectiveness of task-performing teams and the theory and practice of leadership development. Wageman’s selected publications include: "Team Diagnostic Survey," with Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science; "As the Twig is Bent: The Effects of Shared Values on Emergent Interdependence in Teams" with Fred Gordon, Organization Science; "A Theory of Team Coaching," with Hackman, Academy of Management Review, "How Leaders Foster Team Self-management," Organization Science; "Interdependence and Group Effectiveness," Administrative Science Quarterly; "Critical Success Factors for Self-managing Teams," Organization Dynamics; and "Incentives and Cooperation: The Joint Effects of Tasks and Rewards on Group Effectiveness," with G. P. Baker, III, Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Professor Wageman has been awarded the Danforth Center Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard University, 1991; and Best Publication of 1995, Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior Division.