Evan Apfelbaum is a Professor of Management & Organizations. At BU, he has served in a number of leadership roles as part of the university’s 2030 Strategic Planning Task Force and as Research Director of the HR Policy Institute. Prior to joining BU, he was the W. Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Team and Group Research Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his B.S. in Psychology and Music from Union College and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Tufts University.
Evan's research has been featured in leading academic journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Management Science, Organization Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize and is the recipient of the James H. Ferry Jr. Grant for Innovation in Research, an Early Researcher Award from the American Psychological Association, among other research and teaching awards. He was named one of the Top 40 Business Professors Under 40 by Poets & Quants.