Robin J. Ely

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Robin J. Ely is an American economist currently the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. [1] Her interest are gender and race relations. [2] Her most cited academic paper in the field, "Making differences matter" (with DA Thomas) in the Harvard Business Review , has been cited 1770 times, according to Google Scholar, [3] and her analysis has been published in The Washington Post . [4]

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Education

She earned her B.A. from Smith College and her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University. [5]

Publications

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References

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