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Mabel Abraham

Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business
Management Division
Mabel Abraham
Areas of Expertise
Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Labor Markets, Organizations & Markets
Contact
Office: 953 Kravis
Phone: (212) 8547788
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Mabel Abraham is the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.  She teaches the MBA elective course on Power, Influence, and Networks and PhD seminars on Organizational Theory. She earned her PhD and MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to academia, Professor Abraham worked in defined benefits consulting and risk management at Fidelity Investments. 

Her research examines how organizational and network processes contribute to gender differences in economic outcomes. In one recent project, Professor Abraham compares the relative benefits received by male and female entrepreneurs through strategic social networks aimed at generating new clients. In other published and ongoing research, she examines what drives men and women to apply to jobs at different employers; how peer evaluation processes disadvantage women; and how educational status shapes gender pay inequality. Professor Abraham’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science, and has been cited in several media outlets, including ABC, Bloomberg, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Abraham has also been recognized by leading scholarly associations for her research, including the American Sociological Association’s Best Published Paper Award, Wharton People Analytics Research Paper Competition, the Academy of Management’s Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, the INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition, the American Association of University Women American Fellowship, and the Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

Education
B.A., Providence College, 2003; SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
Joined CBS
2015

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Wald, Kristina, Mabel Abraham , Brian Pike , and Adam Galinsky
. “Gender Differences in Climbing up the Ladder: Why Experience Closes the Ambition Gender Gap.” (Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Abraham, Mabel, Tristan Botelho, and Gabrielle Lamont-Dobbin
. “The (Re)Production of Inequality in Evaluations: A Unifying Framework Outlining the Drivers of Gender and Racial Differences in Evaluative Outcomes*.”
Research in Organizational Behavior
vol.
44
, (December 01, 2024).
Explore Further about The (Re)Production of Inequality in Evaluations: A Unifying Framework Outlining the Drivers of Gender and Racial Differences in Evaluative Outcomes*
Journal Article
Abraham, Mabel and Vanessa Burbano
. “Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence.”
Organization Science
vol.
33
, (February 01, 2022):
393
-
413
.
Explore Further about Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence
Journal Article
Abraham, Mabel and Vanessa Burbano
. “Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence.” (March 17, 2021).
Explore Further about Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence
Journal Article
Abraham, Mabel and Tristan Botelho
. “Gender Role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: The Case of Resource Exchange among Entrepreneurs.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.
65
, (February 27, 2019):
151
-
180
.
Explore Further about Gender Role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: The Case of Resource Exchange among Entrepreneurs
Journal Article
Abraham, Mabel
. “Gender-role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: An Examination of Networking among Entrepreneurs.” (February 27, 2019).
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Journal Article
Botelho, Tristan and Mabel Abraham
. “Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.
62
, (February 01, 2017):
698
-
730
.
Explore Further about Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process
Journal Article
Abraham, Mabel
. “Pay Formalization Revisited: Considering the Effects of Manager Gender and Discretion on Closing the Gender Wage Gap.”
Academy of Management Journal
vol.
60
, (February 01, 2017):
29
-
54
.
Explore Further about Pay Formalization Revisited: Considering the Effects of Manager Gender and Discretion on Closing the Gender Wage Gap
Working Paper
Abraham, Mabel and Tristan Botelho
. Understanding the Labor Market for Entrepreneurs. January 01, 2025.
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Working Paper
Abraham, Mabel, Tristan Botelho, and C. Carter
. Downstream Effects of Evaluator Placement. January 01, 2025.
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Working Paper
Abraham, Mabel and Tristan Botelho
. Status and Compensation. January 01, 2022.
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Working Paper
Abraham, Mabel and K. Weisshaar
. From Self-Diagnoses to Change: Organizational Narratives and the Gender Pay Gap. July 26, 2021.
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Working Paper
Pike, B., K. Wald, Mabel Abraham , and Adam Galinsky
. Women Don't Run? Gender and Experience Interact to Predict Political Candidate Emergence. January 01, 2019.
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Working Paper
Wald, K., B. Pike, Mabel Abraham , and Adam Galinsky
. Gender Parity in Running for Office: Female and Male Elected Officials Run for Higher Office at Equivalent Rates. January 01, 2019.
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Working Paper
Abraham, Mabel, Mathijs De Vaan, and Dan Wang
. Social comparison in tie-formation: Which reference groups are relevant? January 01, 2019.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Abraham, Mabel and Vanessa Burbano
. “Congruence between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence.”
Organization Science
. March 17, 2021.
Explore Further about Congruence between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Botelho, Tristan and Mabel Abraham
. “Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough to Overcome Gender Bias.”
Harvard Business Review
. October 25, 2017.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Botelho, Tristan and Mabel Abraham
. “To Overcome Gender Bias, Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough .”
London School of Economics Business Review
. January 01, 2017.
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For New Hires, Remote Work Brings Challenges, Opportunities

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'Pivotal' Moment for Businesses Considering Back-to-Office Plans

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Trump Administration Targets Diversity Hiring by Contractors

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Article

Missing the Mark: Evaluations at Work Perpetuate Inequality

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