Tsedal Neeley is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School.

Professor Neeley's research focuses on the challenges that global collaborators face when attempting to coordinate work across national and linguistic boundaries, with special emphasis in the impact of language, power, status, and emotions on social dynamics.  In particular, she examines the effects of internationalizing firms' policies requiring employees of diverse skill-set to adopt English as their common business language, or lingua franca.  In addition to lingua franca adoption behaviors, she studies the influence of culture in heterogeneous work environments. Professor Neeley's publishes her work in leading scholarly and practitioner-oriented outlets such as Organization Science, Management Science, Harvard Business Review and Organizational Dynamics.  

Before her academic career, Professor Neeley spent ten years in industry working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various capacities including strategies for global customer experience, 360 degree performance software management systems, sales force/sales management development, and business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures.  With extensive international experience, Professor Neeley is fluent in four languages. 

Professor Neeley received her Ph.D. from Stanford University's Department of Management Science and Engineering specializing in organizational studies.  Professor Neeley was a Stanford University School of Engineering Lieberman award recipient for excellence in teaching and research.