Michele J. Gelfand is a preeminent cultural psychologist and the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. As a leading authority on social norms and conflict, she is best known for her groundbreaking theory of cultural tightness-looseness. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, her extensive work on negotiation and diversity, including editing seminal handbooks, has established her as a defining voice in cross-cultural organizational behavior.
