Ivuoma Ngozi Onyeador
Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations
Ivuoma Onyeador is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. Her research examines how people judge and respond to group-based discrimination and disparities. Through her research program, she aims to increase people’s understanding of and willingness to address inequality. Professor Onyeador’s research has been published in leading journals such as Psychological Science and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Her work has also been featured in popular press outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic.
In recognition of her contributions, she has been named a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science, selected for the SAGE Early Career Trajectory award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and for a Mission Award from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. In 2022, she was named one of the best 40 under 40 MBA professors by Poets & Quants. In 2024-2025, she'll be on leave at Harvard Business School.
Professor Onyeador earned her B.S. in Psychology, with distinction, from Yale University, her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UCLA, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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B.S., 2011, Psychology, Yale University, with distinction
M.A., 2013, Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., 2017, Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles -
Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2020-present
Assistant Professor, Psychology (by courtesy), Northwestern University, 2020-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Yale University, 2018-2020
Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology, Yale University, 2017-2018 -
CASBS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 09/2024 - 06/2025
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Business in Global Society,, Harvard Business School, 09/2024 - 05/2025
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Business in Global Society, Harvard Business School, 09/2024 - 05/2025
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (declined), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 09/2024 - 06/2025
Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors, Poets & Quants
Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors, Poets & Quants
SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science
Admired Scholar, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Service to SPSP Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Mission Award - The SIPS Mission Award is the highest recognition the organization bestows., Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
Admired Scholar, Society for Personality and Social Psychology -
Ad-hoc Reviewer, Russell Sage Foundation: Dissertation grants, 2023
Ad-hoc Reviewer, National Science Foundation: SBE postdoc grants, 2023
Editorial Board, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020
Editorial Board, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2021
Referee, Psychological Science, 2020
Ad-hoc Reviewer, Organization Science, 2021
Referee, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019
Referee, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020
Referee, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020
Referee, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2020
Referee, Nature Human Behavior, 2020
Referee, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2021
Referee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nexus, 2021
Ad-hoc Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2021
Referee, Race and Social Problems, 2020
Referee, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, 2020
Referee, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2020
Special Topics in Management & Organizations: Micro (MORS-521-1)
The course covers classic and recent research topics in micro-oriented areas of Management and Organizations. Topics are drawn from social psychology, organizational behavior, and micro-organizational research methods.
Leading and Managing Teams (MORS-460-0)
This course examines the design, management, and leadership of teams in organizational settings. The focus is on the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams, the dynamics of intra-team relationships, and sharing of knowledge and information in teams. This class is very practical and hands-on. Each week, students engage in an experiential team challenge (activity or case) pertaining to a key aspect of team and group dynamics. Students are assigned to a group at the beginning of the quarter. This group complete a group project studying and analyzing dynamics and processes of a real client team. There is no final exam, and each group delivers a case study of their client team at the end of quarter.
