Allison Elias
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Education: B.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Assistant Professor Allison Elias teaches courses about communication and negotiation in Darden's MBA and EMBA programs as well as to executive education learners. Her courses have been rated among the top 10% of all Darden electives (for course content and instructor quality). She received a Wells Fargo Award for Excellence in Course Materials in 2024, and was a past nominee for the Outstanding Faculty Award at Darden.
Elias provides expert commentary to media outlets such as NPR, PBS, CNN, and Newsweek, and her research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Quartz.com, and Poets & Quants.
Her first book was named a Best Summer Book of 2023: Business by the Financial Times. It was a finalist for the Hagley Prize, awarded by the Business History Conference, for the best book in business history, and it was named a must-read book on women’s history by Columbia University Press.
Before coming to Darden, Elias taught at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University; and the ILR School, Cornell University. At Cornell she won an exemplary teaching award and was recognized for advancing gender equality across the campus. During graduate school, she gained practical conflict resolution skills as a court-certified mediator and continues to be engaged in the mediation community.