Joanne Yates

JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She developed MIT Sloan's Managerial Communication curriculum. Now, after five years as Deputy Dean followed by a sabbatical, she has returned to the classroom to teach the Communication for Managers core course. She is currently collaborating with her husband, Craig N. Murphy, professor of political science at Wellesley College, on a study of the history of voluntary consensus standard setting. An initial short book has already emerged out of that project--Craig N. Murphy and JoAnne Yates, The International Organization for Standardization (IS0): Global governance through voluntary consensus (London: Routledge Press, 2009)--and another, longer scholarly book is in process. Yates holds a BA from Texas Christian University as well as an MA and a PhD from the University of North Carolina.