About the
Bias Interrupters Working Group
Formed in 2015, the Bias Interrupters Working Group is an interdisciplinary group of high-profile researchers working with six prominent companies to pilot Bias Interrupters and find out what works. Experimental teams work with corporate members to implement Bias Interrupters into basic business systems and measure the results.
This Working Group has:
- Implemented seven Bias Interrupter experiments in prominent companies
- Developed a Bias Climate Survey to help companies pinpoint what they need to work on. (Coming soon!)
Working Group Participants
Five distinct groups make up the Working Group:
- Behavioral economists;
- Experimental social psychologists who study workplace gender and racial bias;
- Organizational change scholars;
- An editor of the Harvard Business Review; and
- Select Corporate Members (invitation only)
Academic Members
Jennifer Berdahl
Montalbano Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Monica Biernat
Professor & Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Kansas
Emilio Castilla
Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Michelle Duguid
Associate Professor, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
Naomi Ellemers
Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University
Susan Rebecca Fisk
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Kent State University
Jeffrey Flory
Assistant Professor, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College
Adam Grant
Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania
Erika Hall
Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Emory University
Richard Lee
Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
Andreas Leibbrandt
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Monash University
Kyle Lewis
Professor, Technology Management Program, UC Santa Barbara
Su Li
Research Director- Organizational Bias, Center for WorkLife Law
John List
Homer J. Livingstone Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Brenda Major
Professor, Department of Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gordon Moskowitz
Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University
Cecilia Ridgeway
Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences
Louise Roth
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
Christina Rott
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics (AE1), Maastricht University
Margaret Shih
Board of Visitors Term Chair Professor of Management and Organizations, Senior Associate Dean of FEMBA and Full Time MBA Programs, UCLA
Ashleigh Shelby-Rosette
Associate Professor, Management and Organizations, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Nicole Stephens
Associate Professor, Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Olga Stoddard
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Brigham Young University
Melissa Thomas-Hunt
Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, Vanderbilt University
Greg Walton
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
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