
معرفی
Zoë B. Cullen is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School within the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Her research spans Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Digital Economy with a focus on pay transparency, remote work valuation, and labor market discrimination.
- PhD in Economics, Stanford University (2016)
- Chief Economist, Southeast Asian Bank (2016-2018)
- Current NBER Affiliate in Labor Studies
- Associate Editor, Journal of Political Economy
Her research interests include:
• Labor market transparency, particularly pay benchmarking and salary negotiations
• Digital work transformation, analyzing remote work adoption and peer-to-peer labor platforms
• Social interactions in organizations through studies on 'old boys' clubs' and salary taboo norms.
Recent working papers show increasing focus on pay transparency policy evaluation (2023-2025), employee valuation of remote work (2025), and equilibrium effects of salary information diffusion. Her journal articles demonstrate interdisciplinary impact across top economics and management journals.
- Sloan Research Fellowship (2024)
- NSF Grant for 'What's My Employee Worth?' (2023)
- ACM Conference Award for pay transparency modeling (2019)
She advises pre-doctoral fellows in economics research and contributes to teaching materials including case studies on negotiation coaching and spreadsheet analysis. Her lab work involves field experiments with over 3,100 participants and firm-level survey analysis across thousands of businesses.




