Faculty Directory | Michael S. North

Michael S. North is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations (with tenure) at New York University Stern School of Business. For several years he taught and coordinated the Stern undergraduate core course “Management & Organizations.” He currently teaches the core course “Leadership in Organizations” in the Stern part-time MBA and executive MBA programs, as well as the full-time MBA core course “Leadership," for which he also serves as Course Lead.

Professor North’s research focuses primarily on challenges of, and considerations for, the aging and increasingly multigenerational workforce. He has published research in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Review, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Annals, and Research in Organizational Behavior. He has authored op-eds for the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Newsweek, Quartz, and New Scientist, among other outlets. Professor North's work has been featured in various media sources, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, Der Spiegel, New Yorker, Washington Post, Forbes, and TIME.

Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor North completed a two-year postdoctoral position at Columbia University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University. Among other accolades, he has been named, globally, a "Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor," a "Top 50 Best Undergraduate Business School Professor," and a "Favorite MBA Professor of the Class of 2023" by Poets and Quants, a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science, and an Elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.