Robin J. Ely is an American economist currently the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA ...

. Her interest are gender and race relations. Her most cited academic paper in the field, "Making differences matter" (with DA Thomas) in the ''

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'', has been cited 1770 times, according to Google Scholar, and her analysis has been published in ''

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''.

Education

She earned her B.A. from

Smith College Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's c ...

and her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

Publications

*DA Thomas, RJ Ely, Making differences matter, ''Harvard Business Review'', 1996 Sep;74(5):79-90. *RJ Ely, DA Thomas, Cultural diversity at work: The effects of diversity perspectives on work group processes and outcomes,

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'', 2001 Jun;46(2):229-73. *Thomas Kochan, Katerina Bezrukova, Robin Ely, Susan Jackson, Aparna Joshi, Karen Jehn, Jonathan Leonard, David Levine, David Thomas, "The effects of diversity on business performance: Report of the diversity research network," . ''

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'' , 2003 Mar 1;42(1):3-21. *RJ Ely, "The power in demography: Women's social constructions of gender identity at work," ''

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'' 38, no. 3 (1995): 589-634.

References

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