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Hannah Riley Bowles
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Hannah Riley Bowles is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and a faculty affiliate of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Her primary research interests are in gender in negotiation and leadership. She is interested in how gender influences the attainment of resources and opportunities for leadership. She has conducted case research on leadership in crisis and complex multi-party conflicts. She has published in journals, such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Bowles is the faculty director of Women & Power, the Kennedy School's executive program for women leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors. She has taught leadership and negotiation in degree and executive programs at the Kennedy School and in executive programs for a diverse array of other institutions, including Citizen’s Bank, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Harvard Business School, and the United Nations Development Programme. She won the Kennedy School's 2003 Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Earlier in her career, she was a research associate at the Conflict Management Group and Harvard Business School. She was a technical advisor to the Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mines of Costa Rica and has been a fellow at the Argentinean National Institute of Public Administration, the West German Parliament, and Oxford University's Forestry Institute. She has a DBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Kennedy School, and an BA from Smith College.

 

 
 
   
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