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Brian Gunia
Brian Christopher Gunia

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONS
Lecturer of Management & Organizations

Print Overview
Brian Gunia is a doctoral candidate in the department of Management and Organizations. He received his M.S. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School, and his B.A. in Economics and Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. Brian’s research focuses on issues at the intersection of ethics, norms, and negotiation: An example is a recent investigation of the way divergent trust norms impact the negotiation effectiveness of Indian and American managers. Brian’s research on vicarious escalation of commitment and deception in groups is forthcoming in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Brian has also presented his research at meetings of the Academy of Management, International Association of Conflict Management, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and Fundacion Urrutia Elejalde Symposium on Social Norms.
  • Recent Media Coverage

    ScienceNOW Daily News (also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Discover Magazine): Bad Decisions May Be Contagious - 11/10/2009

    Forbes.com: The Insider Succession Trap - 10/22/2009

    The Boston Globe: The lying game - 10/18/2009

    The Globe and Mail (Canada): When a complete stranger's better suited than the boss - 10/9/2009

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Print Vita
Education
MS, 2008, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Economics and Finance, 2003, Washington University in St. Louis, Summa cum Laude
Oxford Programme for Undergraduate Studies, 2002, New College, Oxford University

 
Print Research
Research Interests
Ethical Decison Making and Trust; Social and Group Norms; Negotiation and Conflict Management

Articles
Cohen, TayaBrian Gunia, Sun Young Kim-Jun and J. Keith Murnighan. 2009. Do groups lie more than individuals? Honesty & deception as a function of strategic self-interest. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

 
Print Teaching
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Negotiations (MORS-470-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Management & Organizations.

This course is designed to improve students' skills in all phases of negotiation: understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multiparty negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions and the resolution of disputes, to the development of negotiation strategy and to the management of integrative and distributive aspects of the negotiation process. The course is based on a series of simulated negotiations in a variety of contexts including one-on-one, multi-party, cross-cultural, third-party and team negotiations. There is an attendance policy. Prerequisite: MORS-430.