Adam Grant, PhD

The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, Professor of Psychology

Dr. Grant is an organizational psychologist specializing in work motivation, job design, prosocial helping and giving behaviors, and employee initiative and proactivity. He is also the author of Give and Take. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan and his BA from Harvard University, and he has more than 40 publications in leading management and psychology journals, earning research awards from the NSF, APA, SIOP and AAPSS. He has won Wharton's Excellence in Teaching Award at both the MBA and undergraduate levels, and has consulted for and taught executives at organizations such as Google, Borders Group, Yahoo!, Medco, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Time-Warner Cable, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy.

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