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" by Poets and Quants, a "Top 50 Best Undergraduate Business School Professor" 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 Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Annals, and Research in Organizational Behavior. He has authored op-eds for the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Newsweek, Quartz, and New Scientist, among other outlets. In addition, 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.