Anna Mayo, PhD

Anna Mayo is an Assistant Professor in the Carey Business School. Her research explores questions related to what enables effective teamwork, particularly in dynamic organizing contexts, where formal structures that typically support coordination (e.g., clearly defined roles, boundaries around who is "in" the group, and stable relationships via longstanding work groups) are being stripped away. She has studied teamwork in lab settings as well as in finance and health care.

Education

• Ph. D, Organizational Behavior & Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
• MS, Organizational Behavior & Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
• BA, Psychology, Denison University

Research

Selected publications

• Kerrissey, M., Mayo, A.T., & Edmondson, A.C. (forthcoming). Joint problem-solving orientation in fluid cross-boundary teams. Academy of Management Discoveries.
• Mayo, A.T., Myers, C.G., & Sutcliffe, K.M. (forthcoming) Organizational science and health care. Academy of Management Annals.
• Mayo, A.T. & Woolley, A.W. (forthcoming). Variance in group ability to transform resources into performance, and the role of coordinated attention. Academy of Management Discoveries.
• Mayo, A.T., Woolley, A.W., & Chow, R.M. (2020). Unpacking participation and influence: Diversity's countervailing effects on expertise use in groups. Academy of Management Discoveries.
• Mayo, A.T. (2020). Teamwork in a pandemic: Insights from management research. BMJ Leader, 4, 53-56.
• Mayo, A.T. & Woolley, A.W. (2016). Teamwork in health care: Maximizing collective intelligence via inclusive collaboration and open communication. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, 18(9), 933-940.

Teaching

Current

MBA Courses

•  Leadership in Organizations

Executive Education

• Teaming
• Strategic Team Leadership

Honors and distinctions

• 2020, J. Richard Hackman Award for the Dissertation that Most Significantly Advances the Study of Groups, Interdisciplinary Network for Groups Research
• 2019, Best Student Paper Award, Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research
• 2018 Gerald R. Salancik Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2015-2016, Presidential Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2014, Best Poster Award, Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research
• 2013-2015, Vellrath Fellowship, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2004-2008, Heritage Scholarship, Denison University