Research Grant Recipients

• Sonakshi Agrawal, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Unveiling Influence: The Effect of Mandatory Voting Rationale Disclosure on Investor Oversight and Firm Governance"
• Xuelin Li, Assistant Professor of Business, Finance Division
  • Research Project: "Accountability Beyond Profit: Regulating CEO Compensation in Nonprofit Healthcare"
• Vicki Morwitz, Bruce Greenwald Professor of Business, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "How Tariff Price Presentation Affects Consumer Responses, Fairness Perceptions, and Attitudes toward Firms and Government"
• Shawn Park, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
  • Research Project: "Agency Conflicts in General Equilibrium: The Social Value of Managerial Compensation"
• Nathaniel Posner, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "When and Why Do People Engage in Informal Borrowing?"
• Mike White, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Leader Emotion and Authentic Self-Expression: How Feeling Awe Cultivates Expression of the True Self"
• Claire Zhang, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Venture Capital Firms as Multifunctional Brokers: The Diffusion of AI Ethics Practices"

• Xuelin Li, Assistant Professor of Business, Finance Division
  • Research Project: "Accountability Beyond Profit: Regulating CEO Compensation in Nonprofit Healthcare"
• Vicki Morwitz, Bruce Greenwald Professor of Business, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "How Tariff Price Presentation Affects Consumer Responses, Fairness Perceptions, and Attitudes toward Firms and Government"
• Shawn Park, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
  • Research Project: "Agency Conflicts in General Equilibrium: The Social Value of Managerial Compensation"
• Sonakshi Agrawal, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Unveiling Influence: The Effect of Mandatory Voting Rationale Disclosure on Investor Oversight and Firm Governance"
• Claire Zhang, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Venture Capital Firms as Multifunctional Brokers: The Diffusion of AI Ethics Practices"
• Nate Posner, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "When and Why Do People Engage in Informal Borrowing?"

• Silvia Bellezza, Associate Professor of Business, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "The Uneven Fluidity of Gender-Fluid"
    • *Co-Sponsored by Columbia Business School's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Nandil Bhatia, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Institutional Investors, Network Ties, and Shared Sensemaking Under Uncertainty"
• Thomas Bourveau, Associate Professor of Business, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "The Impact of Mandatory Board Diversity Disclosure: Evidence from the NASDAQ Rule"
• Maayan Malter, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "Disability Research in Consumer Behavior"
• Daniel Russman, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "Diversifying the Wealth of Wellness: Exploring Mindful Health Consumption in Marginalized Communities"
    • *Co-Sponsored by Columbia Business School's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Meha Sadasivam, PhD Candidate, Finance Division
  • Research Project: "Getting the Green Signal(s) - Climate Beliefs and Asset Prices"
• Li Yang, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Innovation in Firms: Experimentation and Strategic Communication"

• Melanie Brucks, Assistant Professor of Business, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "The Great Equalizer: Does Virtual Interaction Reduce Gender Disparities in Classroom Participation?"
    • *Co-Sponsored by Columbia Business School's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• 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"
    • *Co-Sponsored by Columbia Business School's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• 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"
     

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• 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"
     

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• 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"

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• 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."

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• Eric Abrahamson, Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Using AI Agents and Chatbots to Teach Leadership in the Classroom"
• Wei Cai, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Culture as a Leading Indicator of Quality"
• Yixi Chen, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Maverick or Misfit? The Double-Edged Signal of Neurodivergence in Entrepreneurial Evaluation"
• Mohamed Hussein, Assistant Professor of Business, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "Calloused Credentials"
• Casey McMahon, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Changing the Name but Doing the Work?: Perceptions of Shifting Diversity Efforts"

• Mabel Abraham, Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business, Management Division
  • Research Projects: "Paying—and Punishing—It Forward: How Misrecognized Evaluators Reproduce Their Unmeritocratic Experiences in Peer Evaluations"
• Daniel Ames, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Listen Up!: Tackling Barriers to Listening during Ethical Disagreement"
• Wei Cai, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Generative AI and Workplace Culture"
• Moran Cerf, Adjunct Professor of Business, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "How Leaders Can be Better Trained to Make Critical, Life-Altering, Ethical Choices"
• Adam Galinsky, Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Management Division
  • Research Project: "The Universal Roots of Inspiring Leadership"
• Genevieve Gregorich, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "The Strategic Consequences of Sociopolitical Activism"
• Shunsuke Matsuno, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Leadership and Conformity and in Organizations"
• Christine Nguyen, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "The Effect of Status on Apology Likelihood and Quality"
• Joaquin Peris, PhD Candidate, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "Voluntary Disclosure and the Internal Information Environment of the Firm"

• Laura Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Business, Economics Division
  • Research Project: "Secure Reporting Systems to Support Healthy Workplace Culture"
• Wei Cai, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division
  • Research Project: "The Origin of Organizational Culture"
• Donna Hitscherich, Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business, Finance Division
  • Research Project: "Women in Finance: In Our Own Backyard"
• Maren Hoff, PhD Candidate, Marketing Division
  • Research Project: "The Vicious Cycle of Status Insecurity"
• Rebecca Ponce de Leon, Assistant Professor of Business, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Companies of the People, By the People, For the People? Investigating Support for Participatory Practices in Workplaces"
• Isaac Raymundo, PhD Candidate, Management Division
  • Research Project: "Status and Promotion Systems"

• 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"

• 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"

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• 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"

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• 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"
     

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