Dr. Terri R. Kurtzberg is a graduate of The University of Chicago (BA, MA) and Northwestern University (MS, PhD). She is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick, where she currently holds a Dean’s Research Professorship. Her areas of expertise include virtual work, electronic communication and distraction, negotiation tactics and strategies, and disability employment. Dr. Kurtzberg’s research has been quoted in numerous media outlets such as The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Time Magazine, CNN.com, and on the BBC World Service, CBS Radio, and WABC Eyewitness News. She is the recipient of multiple teaching and research awards, including Rutgers University’s most prestigious teaching honor, the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as being listed among each of the Poets & Quants Favorite EMBA Professors (2020) and the Top 50 Best Undergraduate Business School Professors (2021).
She is the author of five books: Virtual Teams: Mastering Communication and Collaboration in the Digital Age, The Essentials of Job Negotiations: Proven Strategies for Getting What You Want (with Charles Naquin), Distracted: Staying Connected without Losing Focus (with Jennifer Gibbs), Negotiating at Home: Essential Steps for Reaching Agreement with Your Kids (with Mary Kern), and The 10-Second Commute: New Realities of Virtual Work (with Mason Ameri). Other published work appears in journals such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Group Dynamics, and Social Justice Research.