T. Brad HARRIS

Professor

Management & Human Resources

harrisb@hec.fr
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Biography

T. Brad Harris, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of MBA Programs and a Professor of Management and Human Resources at HEC Paris. His primary research and teaching interests include leadership, team dynamics, and HR systems in rapidly growing organizations. Brad has received multiple teaching awards and was named a top “40 under 40 Business School Professor” by Poets and Quants. He has co-authored two books, Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High-Growth Organizations (Columbia, 2021) and 3D Team Leadership: A New Approach for Complex Teams (Stanford, 2017), and published research papers in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. Brad’s work has been cited in leading popular press outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Harvard Business Review, NBC’s The Today Show, Inc.com, and Fast Company. He is a former Associate Editor at the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, The Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Business and Psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University and maintains a joint appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Brad’s most important role is being a father of three children.

Scientific articles

Employees on the rebound: Extending the careers literature to include boomerang employment.

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2017, vol. 102, n° 6, pp 890-909, (in coll. with B. W. Swider, J. T. Liu, R. G. Gardner)

Understanding “It Depends” in Organizational Research: A Theory-Based Taxonomy, Review, and Future Research Agenda Concerning Interactive and Quadratic Relationships

Organizational Research Methods, 2017, vol. 20, n° 4, pp 610-638, (in coll. with R. G. Gardner, N. Li, B. L. Kirkman, J. E. Mathieu)

Recognizing “me” benefits “we”: Investigating the positive spillover effects of formal individual recognition in teams.

Journal of Applied Psychology, July 2016, vol. 101, n° 7, pp 925-939, (in coll. with N. LI, X. Zheng, X. Liu, B. L. Kirkman)

Don’t Forget the Items: Item-Level Meta-Analytic and Substantive Validity Techniques for Reexamining Scale Validation

Organizational Research Methods, 2016, vol. 19, n° 4, pp 616-650, (in coll. with N. C. Carpenter, J. Son, A. L. Alexander, M. T. Horner)

Initial impressions: What they are, what they are not, and how they influence structured interview outcomes.

Journal of Applied Psychology, december, 2 2016, vol. 101, n° 5, pp 625-638, (in coll. with B. W. Swider, M. R. Barrick)

Rules of engagement: the joint influence of trainer expressiveness and trainee experiential learning style on engagement and training transfer

International Journal of Training and Development, 2015, vol. 19, n° 1, pp 18-31, (in coll. with B. Rangel, W. Chung, N. C. Carpenter, D. S. Chiaburu, J. L. Moore)

Putting non-work ties to work: The case of guanxi in supervisor–subordinate relationships

Leadership Quarterly, February 2015, vol. 26, n° 1, pp 37-54, (in coll. with X.-A. Zhang, N. Li)

Getting What's New from Newcomers: Empowering Leadership, Creativity, and Adjustment in the Socialization Context

Personnel Psychology, Fall 2014, vol. 67, n° 3, pp 567-604, (in coll. with N. Li, W. R. Boswell, X.-A. Zhang, Z. Xie)

Satisfaction guaranteed? Enhanced impact of trainer competence for autonomous trainees

Industrial and Commercial Training, 2014, vol. 46, n° 5, pp 270-277, (in coll. with W. Chung, C. L. Frye, D. S. Chiaburu)

Ideology and Gender: Observers’ System Justification and Targets’ Gender as Interactive Predictors of Citizenship Expectations

Journal of Social Psychology, 2014, vol. 154, n° 4, pp 283-298, (in coll. with D. S. Chiaburu, T. A. Smith)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Scientific articles

Exploring the pandemic's potential effects on workers' collectivist values, prosocial behaviors, and attitudes toward mistreatment

Human Resource Management, January-February 2022, vol. 61, n° 1, pp 55-74, (in coll. with N. LI, H. Liao, J. Pan)

First impression effects in organizational psychology

Journal of Applied Psychology, March 2022, vol. 107, n° 3, pp 346-369, (in coll. with B. W. Swider, Q. Gong)

Informational advantages in social networks: The core-periphery divide in peer performance ratings.

Journal of Applied Psychology, July 2021, vol. 106, n° 7, pp 1093-1102, (in coll. with H. H. Zhao, N. Li, C. C. Rosen, X. Zhang)

Are followers satisfied with conscientious leaders? The moderating influence of leader role authenticity

Journal of Organizational Behavior, december, 2 2019, vol. 40, n° 4, pp 456-471, (in coll. with M. T. Cardador, M. S. Cole, S. Mistry, B. L. Kirkman)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management, Texas A&M University - USA
  • Master, Business Administration, -, University of Florida - USA

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2023- Associate Dean of MBA Programs HEC Paris
  • 2022- Professor HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

  • 2018-2021 Associate Professor, Management and Leadership Texas Christian University
  • 2020- Affiliated Faculty University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
  • 2012-2015 Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, Southern Management Association

Awards & honors

  • 2020 Rhodes Professor of the Year
  • 2019 Poets and Quants Best 40 Professors Under 40 List
  • 2018 Innovation in Teaching Curriculum Award
  • 2018 Best Reviewer Award, Personnel Psychology