• Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior, Olin Business School

William Bottom

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• Ph.D. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• M.A. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• B.A. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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How history can help innovate business education Business schools need to improve interdisciplinary communication to make the MBA relevant Nov. 2, 2005 -- Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo Corporations enjoy cross-curricular classes at the Olin School of Business' Knight Center for Executive Education. Download The debate over the relevance and future prospects of business schools is not new. The same issues have existed since the beginning of formal business education in the late 1800s. The current state of the debate, fueled by declining MBA applications and high profile legal cases involving MBA-trained executives, has proceeded in ignorance of this history, according to Bill Bottom, the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Woods give back to WUSTL by establishing new professorship Bill Bottom to hold new professorship in business July 22, 2004 -- Joyce and Howard Wood, both alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business, have created the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professorship in Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift of $1.7 million, which has been augmented with $300,000 from the University's Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. William P. Bottom, Ph.D., will be formally installed as the first holder of this professorship at a later date.

Alumni couple give back Woods give back to Washington University by establishing new professorship in business June 2, 2004 -- Joyce and Howard Wood, both alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business, have created the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professorship in Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift of $1.7 million, which has been augmented with $300,000 from the University's Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. William P. Bottom, Ph.D., will be formally installed as the first holder of this professorship at a later date.

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Not another PowerPoint presentation! Newsweek Magazine May 9, 2005 -- In the age of BlackBerrys and cell phones, the traditional business meeting may be just another relic. Tolerance of in-person sessions is waning, in the face of digital alternatives. Corporate America seems to be heeding calls for etiquette reform. It's on the verge of losing the most important element of the business meeting--the personal relationship. WUSTL organizational behavior specialist William Bottom says, "People are using BlackBerrys as a crutch to avoid conflicts that they should be having face to face."

Areas of Expertise:

Behavioral Science; Motivation; Negotiation and Conflict Resolution; Organizational Behavior - Team Development; Organizational Change and Development

Research interests:

Organizational behavior, behavioral decision theory, negotiation

Selected Publications:

* "Keynes Attack on the Versailles Treaty: An Early Investigation of the Consequences of Bounded Rationality, Framing, and Cognitive Illusions," International Negotiation, 2003

* "Propagation of individual bias through group judgment: Error in the treatment of asymmetrically informative signals," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, with K. Ladha and G.J. Miller, 2002

* "When Talk is Not Cheap: Substantive Penance and Expressions of Intent in Rebuilding Cooperation," Organization Science, with K. Gibson, S. Daniels, and J.K. Murnighan, 2002

* "Negotiating a Coalition: Risk, Quota Shaving, and Learning to Bargain," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2000

* "Negotiating Risks: Sources of Uncertainty and the Impact of Reference Points on Settlements," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1998

* "Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perception: A Model Based Approach," Risk Analysis, with R. Bontempo and E. Weber, 1997

* "Getting to the Core: Coalitional Integrity as a Constraint on the Power of Agenda Setters," Journal of Conflict Resolution, with C. Eavey and G. Miller, 1996

Academic/professional activities:

Member: Academy of Management; American Psychological Society; Society for Judgment and Decision Making; International Association for Conflict Management

Consultant: IBM; Detroit Edison; Monsanto; BJC Health Systems; Charter Communications

Awards/honors:

Marcile and James Reid Professor, 1994-1995

Russell Sage Foundation Grant

National Science Foundation Grant

Personal interests:

Professor Bottom enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons. He also enjoys playing golf and shooting hoops.