Linda Argote is the David M. and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where she directs the Center for Organizational Learning, Innovation and Knowledge. Her research focuses on organizational learning, knowledge transfer, transactive memory, and group processes and performance. Her book, Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge was a finalist for the Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management. Dr. Argote served as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science and Departmental Editor of Management Science. She was chosen as Distinguished Scholar by the Organization and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. The International Network for Groups Research recognized her with the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.
John M. Levine is Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center, at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on small group processes, including newcomer innovation in work teams, reaction to deviance and disloyalty, and the impact of disagreement/argumentation on learning. He has served as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Chair of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Dr. Levine was co-recipient of the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently an Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.