#  Lauren Audrie Rivera 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Lauren Rivera's Website](https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/rivera_lauren.aspx) 

 

 



 

 (Sociology, June 2009)  
*Thesis Title:* Hiring and Inequality in Elite Professional Service Firms  
*Committee:* Michèle Lamont (chair), Frank Dobbin, and Mary C. Brinton  
*Initial Placement*: Assistant Professor, Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University  
*Current Position:* [Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Associate Professor of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/rivera_lauren.aspx)

 Lauren Rivera is an expert on workplace personnel practices, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has written extensively on hiring and promotion practices in elite professional service firms. Her award-winning book *Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs* (Princeton University Press, 2015) investigates hiring decisions for top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms. Her research has been featured in the *Atlantic*, *Economist*, *Financial Times*, *Fortune*, *New York Times*, *Wall Street Journal*, and NPR. In recognition for her work, Professor Rivera received the American Sociological Association's William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. She has been named one of the top 40 business school professors under 40 by *Poets & Quants* and a rising management star by Thinkers50. She received her B.A. in sociology and developmental psychology from Yale University and her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University



 

 

 





 

 

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