The Bernstein Center is proud to support distinguished faculty and doctoral students in their innovative and relevant research work. Each project is pertinent to the Center’s mission and long-term vision, providing insightful conclusions that help shape the future of values-based leadership, ethical decision-making, governance, and the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) space. Explore our current and past research grant recipients:
2022-23 Grant Recipients Sponsored by The Bernstein Center:
Melanie Brucks, Assistant Professor of Business, Marketing Division
Research Project: "The Great Equalizer: Does Virtual Interaction Reduce Gender Disparities in Classroom Participation?"
Brian Lee, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: "Car Dealership Financing and Financial Distress Outcomes"
Lan Luo, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
Research Project: "Decomposing the Impact of Gender on Facial Discrimination: Using GANs for Modular Stimuli"
Oded Netzer, Vice Dean for Research; Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business, Marketing Division
Research Project: "Diversity in U.S. Advertising in Times of Racial Unrest"
2022-23 Grant Recipients Sponsored by The Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership:
Vanessa Burbano, Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, Management Division &
Dan Wang, Lambert Family Associate Professor of Social Enterprise, Management Division
Research Project: "How do firms' reputations shape their responses to social movements? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements"
Wei Cai, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division
Research Project: "Nurturing Organizational Culture through Employee Selection"
Anthony Le, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
Research Project: “Mandatory Financial Reporting and Employees' Labor Market Outcomes”
Mike White, PhD Candidate, Management Division
Research Project: “Organizations Recruit More Inclusive Employees via Costly Diversity-Focused Claims”
2021-22 Grant Recipients
Sponsored by The Bernstein Center:
Valerie Purdie-Greenaway, Columbia Business School Affiliate; Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Project: "The Social Life of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Brain: What Makes DEI Research Findings Credible in Organizations?"
Lisa Yao Liu, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division
Research Project: "How Do Competing Regulators Regulate Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure? Evidence from Fairness Opinion Providers' COI Disclosures"
Sonia Kim, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
Research Project: "If you Like the Brand I know, We Can Have a Conversation: The Effect of Brand Preference on Willingness to Discuss Controversial Social Issues"
JunJun Quan, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: "Long-Short Fight Under the Influence of Passive Governance"
Stefan Walz, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: "Financing Climate Change: Bank Lending and Dirty Firms"
Sponsored by The Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership:
Wei Cai, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division
Research Project: “Inclusive Leaders”
James T. Carter, PhD Candidate, Management Division
Research Project: “The Ricky Business of Organizational Claims: Effects of (In)consistency between Organizational Claims and Outcomes”
Brandon Freiberg, PhD Candidate, Management Division
Research Project: “Spillover Effects of Diversity Initiatives"
Jean Joohyun Oh, PhD Candidate, Management Division
Research Project: “Working Class Founder: The Effects of Social Class Origins on Entrepreneurship”
Learn more about our 2021-22 grant recipients.
2020-21 Grant Recipients
Sponsored by The Bernstein Center:
Kim Cramer, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: “Access to Banks and Household Resilience”
Ran Liu, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: “Imperfect Data Processing and Capital Market Opening in China”
Vrinda Mittal, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: “Role of Nonbank Lending for Middle-Market Firms”
Kunjue Wang, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
Research Project: “Foreign Currency and Firm’s Operating Decisions”
Naz Koont, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: “Branch Quality and Bank Market Power: Demographic Determinants”
Sponsored by The Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership:
Sophie Cho, PhD Candidate, Management Division
Research Project: “Formation of Organizational Values in Entrepreneurial Firms”
Qingkai Dong, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
Research Project: “Financial Statements: Microscopes on Micro-governments”
Maayan Malter, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
Research Project: “Role of Identity and Moral Trade Offs”
Learn more about our 2020-21 grant recipients.
2019-20 Grant Recipients
Sponsored by The Bernstein Center:
Shayan Dashmiz, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
Research Project: “Concavified Contracts: A Remedy for Managerial Risk-Taking”
Jenna Song, Management Division
Research Project: “Empty Claims or Real Commitments? Decoupling and the Gender Pay Gap”
Yegor Tkachenko, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
Research Project: “Toward an Ethical Clearing House: Scalable Ranking Under Ethical Constraints”
Dan Wang, David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business, Management Division
Research Project: "Does Diversity Bolster Social Activism Against Corporations? An Experimental Study”
Sponsored by The Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership:
Wei Jiang, Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Finance Department
Research Project: “Women in the Boardroom: Why does Change come at a Glacial Pace?”
Zaijia Liu, Management Division
Research Project: “Reactions to Observed Norm Violations: Differences between Moral and Conventional Domains and the Differential Role of Internalization”
Christian Moser, Assistant Professor of Business, Economics Department
Research Project: “The Value of Leadership and Workplace Attributes in the Labor Market”
Learn more about our 2019-20 grant recipients.
2018-19 Grant Recipients
Sponsored by The Bernstein Center:
Vanessa Burbano, Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, Management Division
Research Project: "Employee Unethical Behavior and Social Responsibility: What Motivates Misconduct on the Job?"
Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, PhD Candidate, Management Division
Research Project: "CSR and Political Access: A Randomized Field Experiment."
Minh Phan, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
Research Project: "Bank Executives' Short-Termism and Financial Stability."
Shiva Rajgopal, Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing, Accounting Division
Research Project: "Does Financial Misconduct Pay Off Even When Discovered?"
Jing Wen, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
Research Project: "Evidence from Basel III on Heightened Capital Requirements: Risk Mitigation from the Banking Industry to Other Industries."
Learn more about our 2018-19 grant recipients.
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