PROFILE

Hooria Jazaieri, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of management at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Originally from Lawrence, Kansas, she received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, her masters degree from Santa Clara University, and her PhD from UC Berkeley. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

At the Leavey School of Business, she teaches the MBA core course, “Business and the Common Good” and leadership. In addition to being an award-winning professor, Hooria is also an accomplished researcher. She studies emotions in the workplace, intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation, and individual reputation. Her research has been published in leading academic journals in the fields of management and psychology and is regularly featured in popular press outlets, including Harvard Business Review, and Wall Street Journal, among others.

Outside of work, Hooria serves on the board of two non-profits, is a science advisor at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and is a licensed psychotherapist. She volunteers with the American Red Cross as a Disaster Mental Health Responder and can be found most weekends doing yoga with her dog, Wes.