Robert J. Bies is a professor of management and founder of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Bies’s current research focuses on leadership and the delivery of bad news, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace. He has published extensively on these topics and related issues in academic journals.He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.

Bies has received several teaching awards, including the Best Teacher award at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. At Georgetown, he has twice received the Joseph Le Moine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence at the McDonough School of Business, and he received the Outstanding Professor of the International Executive MBA Program (IEMBA-2) at the McDonough School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in organizational behavior, and a B.A. in business administration and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.

Thomas M. Tripp is a professor of management and operations at Washington State University. Professor Tripp has published dozens of research articles in scientific journals on the subject of workplace conflict and organizational justice. Currently, he is chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management, the professional association of nearly twenty thousand management professors. He also serves on the editorial boards of Negotiations and Conflict Management Research, International Journal of Conflict Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Management.

Tripp has taught courses in leadership skills and in negotiation skills. He has twice received the award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching from WSU’s College of Business. He also won the Students’Award for Teaching Excellence from theWSU Vancouver campus students. Finally, he was inducted into WSU’s Teaching Academy as one of twelve inaugural members, and served as its vice chair.

He received a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.S. in psychology from the University of Washington. Born and raised in Seattle, he continues to live in the Pacific Northwest.