Biography
Francesca Gino is currently an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School. In 2009, Francesca was granted the distinction of the Willard J. Graham Fellow from UNC.
Francesca's research focuses on interpersonal influences in various areas, including advice giving and taking, decision making and negotiation, ethics, and innovation. Her work has appeared in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Psychological Science .
At Kenan-Flagler, Francesca is currently the instructor for the elective Teams & Groups in Organizations course in both the full-time MBA program and the BSBA program. She also teaches Negotiations in the full-time MBA program.
Before joining UNC, Francesca was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, where she taught the Organizational Behavior course in the Tepper undergraduate program for two years. Before her Carnegie Mellon appointment, Francesca spent two years at the Harvard Business School as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Researcher.
A native of Italy, Francesca earned a B.A. in Business Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Trento, Italy. She also holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.