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Ross School of Business

 
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Affiliated Faculty

The Center for POS is strengthened by its relationship with POS faculty throughout the world, and in particular with the affiliated faculty listed below. These individuals teach courses on POS at a variety of universities in the United States and in the Executive Education program at the Ross School of Business.




Laura Morgan Roberts
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Harvard Business School

The goal of my research is to discover how to generate extraordinary performance and well-being outcomes in organizations that contain a culturally diverse employee and/or client base. I posit that the key to generating extraordinary outcomes in diverse organizations lies in viewing diverse identity groups, and the individuals who belong to them, as capable and essential resources that create value for organizations. As such, I devote the majority of my research to documenting the process by which identities are socially-constructed such that differences are magnified, discounted, transcended or affirmed in the micro-context of social interaction in work organizations. more . . .