CRISTIANO L. GUARANA

Cristiano L. Guarana is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received his PhD in Management in 2015 from the University of Washington and worked as post-doctoral researcher at the University of Virginia for two years. Prof. Guarana’s research examines how leaders and followers’ limited attentional resources affects decisions, relationships, and behaviors in complex organizational contexts. He is published in a number of top-tier academic journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Psychological Science, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. His work has also appeared in media outlets such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Observer (Association for Psychological Science), Fortune, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, The Times (of London), Quartz, Discover Magazine Blog, The Tonic, The British Psychological Society, American Police Beat, and The Atlantic. He teaches courses on organizational behavior and leadership at Kelley and won several collegiate and university teaching awards including the Trustee’s Teaching Award in 2020, and the Innovative Teaching Award in 2019. Currently, Prof. Guarana serves in the Editorial Review Board for the Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Business Horizons. Prior to entering academia, Prof. Guarana was an entrepreneur and played professional basketball in Brazil.