Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy.
Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. She has published in Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, among other outlets. Her work has been cited over 60,000 times (H index= 94) and has been discussed on CNN, the NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe. Her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World was published by Scribner in 2018. She is the Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management and Division Chair of the Conflict Division of the Academy of Management. Gelfand is a fellow of AOM, SESP, IACCP, and IACM, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She lives in Palo Alto with her husband Todd Betke and has 2 daughters, Jeanette and Hannah.