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Mabel Abraham is the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics. She teaches the MBA elective course on Power, Influence, and Networks and PhD seminars on Organizational Theory.
Her educational background includes:
- B.A. from Providence College (2003)
- SM in Management from MIT (2013)
- PhD in Management from MIT (2015)
Dr. Abraham's research examines how organizational and network processes contribute to gender differences in economic outcomes. She investigates why common organizational evaluation processes fail to be meritocratic and how they produce inequality. Her work spans several key areas including gender disparities in entrepreneurial networks, application behaviors to different employers, peer evaluation processes that disadvantage women, and how educational status shapes gender pay inequality. Her research has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science.
Professor Abraham's research portfolio shows a consistent focus on understanding the mechanisms of inequality reproduction in organizational contexts. Her work demonstrates how misrecognition in evaluations leads to cycles of inequality, how gender role incongruity affects entrepreneurs' networking opportunities, and how organizational claims about leadership gender impact applicant pools. She has also made significant contributions to understanding how search costs magnify gender-based double standards and how pay formalization affects gender wage gaps.
Her scholarly achievements have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards:
- American Sociological Association's Best Published Paper Award
- Wharton People Analytics Research Paper Competition
- Academy of Management's Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award
- INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition
- American Association of University Women American Fellowship
- Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Professor Abraham's work has gained significant media attention, being cited in major outlets including ABC, Bloomberg, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. She serves on the Academic Advisory Council for the Columbia Law School's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law ERA Project, extending her impact beyond business school research into legal and policy domains related to gender equality.
