Mike North is Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University Stern School of Business, and the founding director of the AGE Initiative. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University. Prior to joining NYU Stern, he completed a two-year postdoctoral position at Columbia University. Among other accolades, he has been named, globally, a "Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor," a "Top 50 Best Undergraduate Business School Professor," and a "Favorite MBA Professor of the Class of 2023" by Poets and Quants, a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science, and an Elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

 

Professor North's research focuses primarily on challenges of, and considerations for, the aging and increasingly multigenerational workforce. He has published research in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Review, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored op-eds for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Newsweek, Quartz, and New Scientist, among other outlets. His work has been featured in various media sources, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, Der Spiegel, New Yorker, Washington Post, Forbes, and TIME.