Tanya Manon
Tanya Menon is Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources at the Ohio State Fisher College of Business. She studies how social networks, power/persuasion, and national culture affect people's everyday assumptions and their patterns of decision making. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, among others. Her research has been featured in various media outlets including the The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Times of London, The Guardian, and The Times of India.
As Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Menon was the winner of the 2006 Faculty Excellence Award for exceptional commitment to teaching as voted by students in the Evening MBA and Weekend MBA programs, and the 2007 Phoenix Award, voted by the class of 2007 for enriching the experience of students inside and outside the classroom. She has also been a visiting professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Cornell's Industrial and Labor Relations School, the London Business School, Insead (France), and the Indian School of Business.
She has conducted executive programs all over the world, including the US Intelligence Community, Discover Financial Services, Citibank (India), Tetrapak (Italy), Aetna, McCormick, CareerBuilder.com, National Starch, Baker-Tilly, and the Environmental Protection Agency. She has been a keynote speaker at organizations including American Bar Association Chief Bar Executives, Women's Food Forum, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and the Deloitte Women’s Group.
Menon earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior in 2000 from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where she was also the recipient of an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a Kauffman Foundation Grant for Research on Entrepreneurship, a Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship, and was selected as one of Chicago’s emerging leaders by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Menon earned a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University in 1995.
