Careers Week: Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She is also affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Mind, Brain, Behaviour Initiative at Harvard, and the Behavioural Insight Group at Harvard Kennedy School. She co-chairs HBS Executive Education programs on Behavioural Economics (focused on how to apply behavioural insights to organizational problems) and Driving Profitable Growth.  Professor Gino has been honoured as one of the world’s Top 40 Business Professors under 40 and as one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50. She has won numerous awards for her teaching, including the HBS Faculty Award by Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2015, and for her research, including the 2013 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, from the Academy of Management Organizational Behaviour Division. Her studies have also been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal, and her work has been discussed on National Public Radio and CBS Radio.