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