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KAtharina Pick
Visiting Assistant Professor
katharina.pick@cgu.edu
Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in 2007
A.M. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2005
B.S. in Economics from Wellesley College in 1998
Katharina Pick recently came to the Drucker School from Harvard University where she received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior. Her research examines the internal group dynamics of corporate boards of directors with a particular focus on the psychology of board membership, speaking up behavior, and board process in decision-making and conflict resolution. Recently, she has written on the subject of boardroom dynamics and board leadership. Other research interests include gender and leadership, role negotiation and social identity in high status groups, and sensemaking and diffusion of deviant organizational behavior.
This fall she will be teaching an MBA course on Women and Leadership at the Drucker School of Management.
Outside of work Katharina is an avid tennis player, enjoys travel, playing guitar, film, and live music.
Teaching Interests and Areas of Expertise
Organizational behavior, small groups and teams, organizational theory, leadership, boards of directors/corporate governance, power and influence
Work in Process
Pick, Katharina “Role Tension on Corporate Boards of Directors: A Process View” (Working Paper)
Pick, Katharina “From Ritual to Rational Vehicle: How Boards Serve a Rational Function within a Ceremonial Institution” (book proposal in progress)
Pick, Katharina. (2003) “The Framing and Institutionalization of a Corporate Governance Innovation: How
Directors Make Sense of the Lead Director Idea.” (Working Paper)
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