Fellows

Fellows

The BiGS Fellows are scholarly researchers who will join the School to work on specific projects related to issues of business and society. They will provide intellectual leadership and research support that will accelerate the process of knowledge creation at HBS and leverage the expertise of our faculty.

Our 2023 – 24 cohort of BiGS Fellows will focus on issues at the intersection of business and climate change, including decarbonization, adaptation and resilience, climate accounting and finance, climate tech and entrepreneurship, systems change, and energy transition. The BiGS Climate Fellows will be announced in the spring of 2023 and will start their term in the summer of 2023.

The first cohort of fellows focuses on issues of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. Read more about the BiGS Racial Equity Fellows below.

2022–23 Fellows

Stephanie Creary

Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton
Creary has been a member of the HBS community since 2007; first as Professor David Thomas’s research associate, then as a member of Professor Robin Ely’s Gender and Race in Organizations (GRO) group, and finally as a race and diversity expert partner to HBS in the School’s ambitious plan to develop and disseminate course material on advancing racial equity in business. She studies the dynamics of inclusion and integration in organizations, such as issues of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality, and welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with other HBS professors.
Creary has been a member of the HBS community since 2007; first as Professor David Thomas’s research associate, then as a member of Professor Robin Ely’s Gender and Race in Organizations (GRO) group, and finally as a race and diversity expert partner to HBS in the School’s ambitious plan to develop and disseminate course material on advancing racial equity in business. She studies the dynamics of inclusion and integration in organizations, such as issues of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality, and welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with other HBS professors.

Damon Phillips

Robert Steinberg Professor of Management, Wharton
Phillips, previously a fellow with Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, has proposed research on the relationship between incarceration, employment, and entrepreneurship (including self-employment). He has a particular interest in the fate of the more than 600,000 people who return home from prison each year—especially as most of them are reincarcerated within the first few years.
Phillips, previously a fellow with Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, has proposed research on the relationship between incarceration, employment, and entrepreneurship (including self-employment). He has a particular interest in the fate of the more than 600,000 people who return home from prison each year—especially as most of them are reincarcerated within the first few years.

Broderick Turner

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, and Co-Founder, Technology, Race and Prejudice (T.R.A.P.) Lab
Turner’s research explores how race and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform which collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users.
Turner’s research explores how race and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform which collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users.

Jamillah Williams

Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown

As a sociologist and legal scholar, Williams investigates the effectiveness of various legal, policy, and organizational interventions designed to reduce bias and enhance equity and inclusion. While she specializes in workplace and economic inequality, she is interested in exploring the nature and effects of contemporary bias (structural, explicit, implicit) across a range of contexts.

Williams was previously recognized with the 2021 Michael J. Zimmer memorial award, an honor presented annually to a rising scholar in the field of employment and labor law who demonstrates a commitment to community and workplace justice. She was also named a 2022 Gender+ Justice Fellow at Georgetown, a network of scholars engaging in interdisciplinary research related to intersectional issues of gender, racial, and economic justice.

As a sociologist and legal scholar, Williams investigates the effectiveness of various legal, policy, and organizational interventions designed to reduce bias and enhance equity and inclusion. While she specializes in workplace and economic inequality, she is interested in exploring the nature and effects of contemporary bias (structural, explicit, implicit) across a range of contexts.

Williams was previously recognized with the 2021 Michael J. Zimmer memorial award, an honor presented annually to a rising scholar in the field of employment and labor law who demonstrates a commitment to community and workplace justice. She was also named a 2022 Gender+ Justice Fellow at Georgetown, a network of scholars engaging in interdisciplinary research related to intersectional issues of gender, racial, and economic justice.

Chyei Vinluan

Postdoctoral Fellow of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Chyei Vinluan, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of Business Administration in both the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets and Organizational Behavior Units at HBS, will also join the BiGS Fellows for the next academic year.
Chyei Vinluan, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of Business Administration in both the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets and Organizational Behavior Units at HBS, will also join the BiGS Fellows for the next academic year.