Samir Nurmohamed is an Associate Professor of Management (with tenure) at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

His research examines how people endure, respond, and persist when experiencing adversity at work. He has two primary streams of research related to adversity: one on motivation, primarily focusing on underdogs and the impact of low expectations, and another on behavioral ethics, investigating how employees respond to the adversity of unethical behavior in their organizations.

To understand these topics, he conducts his research using multiple methods (e.g., field and lab experiments, longitudinal surveys, semi-structured interviews, and archival data) across individuals in a variety of work contexts, including those in Fortune 500 corporations, job seekers at reemployment centers, and entrepreneurs who are seeking to bring new culturally contentious initiatives to the marketplace. His work has been published in his field’s top academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science, and featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, The Athletic, and NPR's Hidden Brain.

At Wharton, he (or as he is known to his students, “Prof Nurmo”) teaches the MBA and Wharton Executive MBA (WEMBA) core course on the Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership (MGMT 6100) and Power and Politics in Organizations (MGMT 7720) for undergraduate, MBA, WEMBA, and executive education students. In addition, he has taught and worked with clients such as the World Economic Forum, Apple, Amazon, Deloitte, and Cleveland Clinic on the topics of power, emotional intelligence and resilience. At Wharton, he has received several teaching awards, including the Teaching Excellence Award in the MBA and WEMBA programs, Excellence in Teaching for the Undergraduate Division Award, and MBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award.

He completed his Ph.D. in Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and earned a BA in Economics and Philosophy from The University of Western Ontario. For fun, he enjoys karaoke-ing to hip-hop music, cheering for Toronto and Michigan sports, traveling to new countries, and eating at both fancy and hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Philly (i.e., the best pound-for-pound food city in America) with his wife, Salimah, and their kids (who are becoming little foodies…with strong opinions).