Lumumba Seegars explores the reproduction and contestation of intergroup inequality within organizations.
Lumumba B. Seegars
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum.
Professor Seegars explores the reproduction and contestation of intergroup inequality within organizations. He specifically focuses on racial, gender, and class inequality and their intersections. Across various contexts, he has two streams of work that examine (1) how individuals contest (and reproduce) intergroup inequality within work organizations and (2) how individuals psychologically respond to organizational efforts that challenge intergroup inequality. He received the Best Conference Paper based on a Dissertation Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management.
Professor Seegars earned an A.B. in Social Studies and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a high school math and special education teacher, actor and singer, field organizer for a presidential campaign, and minister.
Organizational Behavior
Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum.
Professor Seegars explores how intergroup inequality is both reproduced and contested within organizations. He specifically focuses on racial, gender, and class inequality and their intersections. Across various contexts, he has two streams of work that examine (1) how individuals contest (and reproduce) intergroup inequality within work organizations and (2) how individuals psychologically respond to organizational efforts that challenge intergroup inequality. He received the Best Conference Paper based on a Dissertation Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management.
Professor Seegars earned an A.B. in Social Studies and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a high school math and special education teacher, actor and singer, field organizer for a presidential campaign, and minister.
- Journal Articles
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- Kyle, Michael Anne, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman, and Sara J. Singer. "Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey." Milbank Quarterly 97, no. 4 (December 2019): 954–977. View Details
- Book Chapters
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- Seegars, Lumumba Babushe, and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Blacks Leading Whites: How Mutual and Dual (Ingroup and Outgroup) Identification Affect Inequality." Chap. 19 in Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019. View Details
- Seegars, Lumumba Babushe, and Patricia Faison Hewlin. "Conformity." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, edited by Virgil Zeigler-Hill and Todd K. Shackelford, 831–836. Springer, 2020. View Details
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- Awards & Honors
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Recipient of the 2021 Doctoral Programs Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society.Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of the Academy of Management for “Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and Gender Inside Organizations” in 2020.
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