Dr. Christine Porath is a professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how to help people and communities thrive.  

Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has written for the The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She has taught in various executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown and University of Southern California, where she was a faculty member at Marshall School of Business. Porath is the author of Mastering Community and Mastering Civility and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior.   

Before getting her doctorate, she worked for International Management Group (IMG), a leading sports management and marketing firm. Porath received her doctorate from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as well as the women’s basketball and soccer teams.