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Kristin J. Behfar  

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Associate Professor Kristin Behfar teaches in the core Leadership and Organizations course as well as the Leadership Strategies second year elective. Her research focuses on sustaining high performance teamwork and leading in global organizations. She has consulted in numerous organizations on team and leadership effectiveness and worked in the marketing communications field for several years. She is currently researching conflict management in teams, managing large scale negotiation teams, how team members manage their team-related frustrations, and how leadership practices vary around the world.

Her publications have appeared in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review, Organizational Research Methods, and Small Group Research. She is also the co-editor of the book entitled "Conflict in Teams: New Directions in Theory and Practice."

Prior to coming to Darden, Professor Behfar was a post-doctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management in the Management and Organizations department and also a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine for six years. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

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