Basima Tewfik is Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management and a former general management consultant in the USA and Europe. Her research focuses on the psychology of the social self at work, particularly workplace impostor thoughts and request-declining behaviour. She also studies effective employee and workgroup functioning.
Her dissertation won the 2018 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition and has been recognized by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Academy of Management. Basima was named a 40 Under 40 Best Business School Professor by Poets & Quants in 2021 and one of Thinkers50’s 30 thinkers to watch in 2022.
She worked as a management consultant at Booz & Company before her graduate studies. Basima holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Wharton and an AB, summa cum laude, in psychology and economics from Harvard.
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