Ma, Anyi

Anyi Ma teaches negotiations at the A. B. Freeman School of Business. She comes to Freeman from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where she earned her PhD in management. Her research concerns the topic of agency: Organizations often tell employees to take charge and assert themselves – or to be agentic – at work. She studies how agentic employees are perceived by others and the implications of these perceptions for gender and leadership. She also examines what agentic experiences feel like from the employee’s perspective and the wide-ranging – and often counter-intuitive – consequences of these experiences. Her research has been published in Organizational Behavior, Human Decision Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and The Leadership Quarterly. Ma holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and management from National University of Singapore.