Gabrielle Lamont-Dobbin

Gabrielle Lamont-Dobbin is a PhD student in Management (Organizational Theory) at Columbia Business School. Her research explores how labor markets and organizational processes shape employees’ experiences and career outcomes. She examines how workers’ behaviors interact with organizational and third-party evaluations to produce unequal outcomes, with a particular focus on the decisions that determine whether employees receive benefits and protections when challenges arise. One stream of her work analyzes administrative data on workers’ compensation claims to demonstrate how procedural timing and credibility influence case outcomes, revealing how inequality can emerge through sequencing and discretion in evaluation. Another stream investigates how managers differentiate between protected conditions and performance failures, and how these judgments shape employees’ career trajectories.

Her research has been published in Research in Organizational Behavior, and she has presented her work at leading conferences including the Academy of Management, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), and the International Association for Conflict Management. At Columbia, she organizes the Macro Management PhD Seminar (“Slump”) and serves as a teaching assistant for MBA and EMBA courses on Leadership and Organizational Change. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a research associate at MIT Sloan School of Management and INSEAD.