Curriculum Vitae - pdf
Position
Assistant Professor of Managing People in Organizations, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain. 2010-present
Education
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, 2010
Dissertation Title: “How power is lost: Illusions of alliance
among the powerful.”
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Cameron Anderson (chair),
Dr. Barry Staw, Dr. Laura Kray, Dr. Serena Chen
M.S., Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, 2007
B.A., Psychology, Tufts University, 2001; Magna Cum Laude; High Thesis Honors
Research Interests
Accuracy and Bias in Interpersonal Perception
Power and Influence
Groups and Teams
Alliance and Coalition Formation
Publications
Overbeck, J. R., Tiedens, L. Z., & Brion, S. (2006). The powerful want to, the powerless have to: Perceived constraint moderates causal attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 479-496.
Audia, P., & Brion, S. (2007). Reluctant to change: Self-enhancing responses to diverging performance measures. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 255-269.
Maddox, K. B., Rapp, D. N., & Brion, S., Taylor, H. A. (2008). Social influences on spatial memory. Memory & Cognition,36, 479-494
Manuscripts Under Review
Anderson, C., & Brion, S. Why do “big wigs” have big egos? Self-perceptions of competence and the attainment of status, (Under review at Administrative Science Quarterly.)
Manuscripts In Preparation
Brion, S., Staw, B., & Moore, D., CEO over-confidence: Diminishing returns to confident appraisals.
Brion, S., Kray, L. J., & Overbeck, J. R., Sex and power: (Un)flattering perceptions of power in negotiations.
Flynn, F., Anderson, C., & Brion, S. Too tough too soon: Familiarity and the backlash effect..
Audia, P., Brion, S., & Greve, H. Organizational social comparison: Self-enhancing biases in the selection of relevant comparisons.
Audia, P., & Brion, S. Biased by success: Cognitive rigidity in equity analyst forecsts.
Presentations
Anderson, C., Brion, S. (2009). Big Wigs, Big Egos: Understanding the Link between Social Status and Overconfidence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Il.
Brion, S. (2008). Website development for small groups research: Integration of PhP and MySQL for online data collection. Informal presentation to Stanford, Berkeley, and USC Ph.D. students at the 67th meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, Ca.
Brion, S., Kray, L. J. (2007). Interplay between power and gender in negotiations. Paper presented at the 115th meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, Ca.
Brion, S., (2007). Ignorance is bliss: Circumscription of choice under ambiguity. Paper presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Organizational Behavior Conference, Stanford, CA.
Brion, S. filling in for Overbeck, J. (2006). Dyadic data analysis. Paper presented at the 65th meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
Brion, S. & Audia, P. (2006). Reluctant to change: Self-enhancing responses to diverging performance measures. Paper presented at the 65th meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
Brion, S. (2006). The myopia of legitimacy: Institutional forces in organizational learning. Paper presented at the 65th meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
Teaching Experience
MBA 252: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Laura Kray. 2007, 2008
MBA 295: Power and Politics: Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Cameron Anderson, 2009
MBA 252: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Barb Mellers. 2010
Grants
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, U.C. Berkeley
Research Support Award (w/ L. Kray) $11,500 (2008-2009)
Research Support Award (w/ C. Anderson) $11,500 (2008-2009)
Experimental Social Science Laboratory, Haas School of Business
Dissertation Grant $2,000 (2009)
Competitive Research Grant (w/ Pino Audia) $4,800 (2006)
Competitive Graduate Student Research Grant $2,000 (2005)
Professional Affiliations
Academy of Management
American Psychological Association
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Professional Experience
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Research Assistant/Lab Administrator 2003-2005
Hayhurst & Associates, HR Consulting Associate 2001-2003
Languages and Citizenship
English - Native and Fluent
French - Native and Fluent
Spanish - Proficient
Italian - Working Knowledge
Born: Brussels, Belgium
Citizenship: EU (Belgium), USA
References
Barry M. Staw
Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
staw@haas.berkeley.edu
Cameron Anderson
Associate Professor
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
anderson@haas.berkeley.edu
Jennifer Overbeck
Assistant Professor
Management and Organization
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
overbeck@marshall.usc.edu
Pino Audia
Associate Professor
Business Administration
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
pino.g.audia@tuck.dartmouth.edu