Improving collaboration in teams,
one conflict at a time.
Professor Weingart’s research examines collaboration, conflict, and negotiation, with a focus on how differences across people both help and hinder effective problem solving and innovation. Weingart has published over 70 articles and book chapters in the fields of management, social psychology, industrial psychology, cognitive psychology, and economics. Her co-authored book, The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work, was published in 2022 by Simon & Schuster.
She currently serves as interim Associate Dean of Masters Programs and co-leads the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab at the Tepper School. Over the course of her career she also served as Chair of Carnegie Mellon’s Faculty Senate, CMU’s Interim Provost/Chief Academic Officer, and as the Tepper School’s Senior Associate Dean – Education and Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center.
An elected Fellow of the Academy of Management and recipient of the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup), Weingart served as President of the International Association for Conflict Management, founding President of INGRoup, and as co-editor of the Academy of Management Annals. Dr. Weingart earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Laurie R. Weingart
Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
➤ LOCATION
Carnegie Mellon University
Tepper School of Business
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
☎ CONTACT
weingart@cmu.edu
Book Publication
The No Club
Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work
By Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart
A practical, timely guide for bringing gender equity to the workplace: unburden women’s careers from work that goes unrewarded.
Research Areas
Conflict
How conflict can be leveraged to help rather than hinder team performance.
Collaboration and Teams
Factors that encourage collaboration and innovation in interdisciplinary and health care teams.
GRoup Dynamics
Revealing the dynamic processes through which groups collaborate, negotiate, and resolve conflict.
Negotiation
Unpacking the strategic complexity of negotiations.