Vanessa Burbano
Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business
Management
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2002; M.A., Universidad Complutense, 2003; M.P.A., Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2009; M.A., UCLA Anderson, 2011; Ph.D., UCLA Anderson, 2015
Joined CBS in 2015
Office:
954
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-4401
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Vanessa Burbano is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Management in the strategy area at Columbia Business School.
Burbano researches the strategic implications of socially responsible and irresponsible firm practices; in particular, how they influence employee behavior. Her body of work has been recognized by her receipt of the 2021 Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management, and the 2021 Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award from the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. She was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2019 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.
Her work has been published in Organization Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, California Management Review, and Organization & Environment, Her publications have been recognized with awards including those from the Strategic Management Society, the Impact for Investment Research Prize, the Responsible Research in Management Award, the Berkeley Sustainable Business and Investment Forum, the International Association of Business & Society, the Industry Studies Association, and the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Her work has also been cited in the popular press, including in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and The Financial Times.
Burbano serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She also serves as the Corporate Engagement Director and Executive Committee Member of LEAP, an NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) dedicated to improving the accuracy of climate projections needed for optimal adaptation to climate change.
She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management and an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to academia, she worked as an Associate at Goldman Sachs and as a Strategy Consultant at Monitor Group.
Teaching
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
Fall 2019
Fall 2018
Columbia Caseworks cases
Zara’s Sustainability Dilemma
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, Bennett Chiles, Dan J. Wang
Research
Journal articles
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and OrganizationalClaims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool:Field Experimental Evidence
In Organization Science
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano
Differences in Consumer-Benefiting Misconduct by Nonprofit, For-profit, and Public Organizations
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, J. Ostler
Getting Gig Workers to Do More by Doing Good: Field Experimental Evidence from Online Platform Labor Marketplaces
In Organization & Environment
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance: Field Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market Platform
In Management Science
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
Pro Bono as a Human Capital Learning and Screening Mechanism: Evidence from Law Firms
In Strategic Management Journal
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, J. Mamer, J. Snyder
Social Responsibility Messages and Worker Wage Requirements: Field Experimental Evidence from Online Labor Marketplaces
In Organization Science
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
The Drivers of Greenwashing
In California Management Review
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Magali Delmas, Vanessa Burbano
Web-only articles
Mitigating Gig Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
In Organization Science
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
Congruence between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence
In Organization Science
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano
Working papers
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, Stephan Meier, Nicolas Padilla
When One Isn't Enough: Organization-level and Product-level Sustainability in New Ventures
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, N. Carlson, J. Ostler
Future Orientation, Diversity, and Corporate Social Responsibility
(2019)
Coauthor(s): O. Hawn, Vanessa Burbano, E. Moulton-Tetlock
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
The Outspoken CEO Is a Rapidly Dying Breed
The Outspoken CEO Is a Rapidly Dying Breed
As 'Woke' Businesses Face Right-Wing Wrath, Culture War Capitalists Cash In
Companies Cannot Win America’s Culture Wars
When Where You Work Determines if You Can Get an Abortion
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
Winner, STR Emerging Scholar Award, Academy of Management’s Strategic Management (STR) Division
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
2021 Finalist, ONE and Network for Business Sustainability Research Impact on Practice Award
International Association of Business and Society Conference
2019 Selected to Poets & Quant’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
2019 Finalist, Industry Studies Association Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award
2018 Winner, Best Paper Award, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference
2017 Winner, Best Ethics Paper, Midwest Strategy Conference
2017 Winner, Outstanding Paper Award, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference
2017 Winner, Responsible Research in Management Award
2017 Winner, Investment for Impact Research Prize, Berkeley Sustainable Business and Investment Forum
2016 Finalist, Wiley Blackwell Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2011