Kevin Kniffin

Kevin Kniffin

  • Assistant Professor
  • Director, Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Decision Research (LEEDR)

Download Vita

Faculty Expertise

  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Interdisciplinarians

Contact

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

kmk276@cornell.edu

Cornell Directory Entry

Biography

Kevin Kniffin leads active streams of research that focus on teamwork, leadership (and management), and interdisciplinarians. Kniffin has contributed original research to publications including American Psychologist, Academy of Management Discoveries, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Kniffin's research to study interdisciplinarians has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and his work has been featured by popular outlets including Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.

Kniffin won the Established Researcher Award in 2019 from the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS) and is an editorial board member for Academy of Management Discoveries. For work he contributed to the MIT Sloan Management Review in 2022, Kniffin won the Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior in 2023 from the Academy of Management.

In the classroom, Kniffin enjoys “meeting students where they are" by engaging students' experiences in the pursuit of studying evidence-based principles of individual and organizational behavior. Winner of the Innovative Teacher Award from the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2020, Kniffin employs an interdisciplinary approach to both organizational behavior and leadership and management in sports. He presented "Ten Bottom-Line Lessons from the Big Leagues" as the university's faculty Homecoming speaker in 2016, and he speaks regularly for alumni, governmental, and business organizations.

Selected Publications

Recent Courses

  • AEM 5305 - Global Citizenship Seminar
  • AEM 3320/AEM 6325 - Leadership and Management in Sports
  • AEM 3245/AEM 6245 - Organizational Behavior

Academic Degrees

  • PhD Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002
  • MA Binghamton University (SUNY), 1998
  • BA Lehigh University, 1995