Michael Slepian
Assistant Professor of Business
Management
B.A., Syracuse University; M.S. and Ph.D., Tufts University
Joined CBS in 2014
Office:
719
Uris
E-mail:
michael.slepian@columbia.edu
Fax:
212-854-3778
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Michael Slepian is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His program of research examines secrecy and trust. He studies the psychology of secrets and how keeping secrets affects two important variables that govern social and organizational life: trust and motivation. He has studied the consequences of keeping secrets, including how they change our behavior, judgments and actions. He studies the effects of both personal and professional secrets for the individual secret keeper as well as whether we can tell when others are concealing information from us.