Dr. Agnes Bäker is Associate Professor of Leadership at the department of Management and Organization at VU Amsterdam and Program Director of the bachelor program in International Business Administration. She holds a PhD in Business Economics from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2010). Agnes’ research focuses on leadership and careers in hospitals and higher education, with a focus on the role of human capital and social capital. Furthermore, she studies humor use at work, teamwork, and peer effects, as well as behavioral economics in general. Her research is mainly empirical, relying on both experimental and econometric design. Agnes has published in internationally renowned journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Vocational Behavior, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Harvard Business Review. She is an Associate Editor at Human Resource Management (Wiley) .