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Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School

Kathleen L. McGinn is a Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Group at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.

McGinn focuses her research on interpersonal relationships and their role in decisions, conflict, and resource allocation within and between organizations. McGinn's investigations into the way people interact, both personally and professionally, in the workplace have resulted in numerous articles and chapters. Currently, McGinn is carrying out a longitudinal field study exploring the ways in which personal and professional relationships affect and are affected by organizational change. McGinn is a member of the Editorial Board at Administrative Science Quarterly. She has presented her work at universities and conferences across North America and Europe.

McGinn has designed and taught numerous courses in organizational behavior, negotiations, and decision analysis. She currently teaches courses on Negotiation and Power and Influence to MBAs at the Harvard Business School and to professionals at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation. Before coming to Harvard, McGinn taught at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Her professional practice focuses on decision making and negotiation in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, human resource management, and organizational change. Among her clients are ARCO, Argonne Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, Knight Ridder Newspapers, KPMG-Peat Marwick, Mayo Clinic, and The Tribune Company.

Prior to her career in teaching and research, McGinn was a general manager and human resource practitioner in private industry and the public sector. McGinn received her Ph.D. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Relationships and Resources: A Network Exploration of Allocation Decisions, won the State Farm National Doctoral Dissertation Award in Business.