Jury Profile

Dr. Taya R. Cohen is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. She co-directs the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab and teaches graduate courses and executive education seminars on negotiation and managing people and teams. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of unethical behavior and identifying strategies for promoting honesty and ethical decision making in the workplace. 

 

Dr. Cohen is a Past-President of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) and serves on editorial review boards for several journals in her field. She publishes her work in prestigious management and psychology journals, and has been featured in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, BBC, NPR, TIME magazine, and the Hidden Brain. She has received outstanding publication awards from the International Association for Conflict Management and from the International Society for Self and Identity. In 2020, she was recognized as one of the Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants. Her professional service at Carnegie Mellon includes leading the interdisciplinary Center for Behavioral and Decision Research (CBDR) as one of the faculty steering committee members.

Dr. Cohen earned a B.A. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Cohen spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.