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Summer R. Jackson

Summer R. Jackson

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who studies issues of identity, inequality, and diversity at work. She has worked with numerous fast-growth technology companies on their DEI initiatives to uncover policies and practices that support building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. Her research has been recognized with the INFORMS Best Dissertation Award and has appeared in scholarly and news outlets such as Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, MIT News and Harvard Business Review. She is on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science.

Professor Jackson is a graduate of Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was recognized as a Presidential Fellow and Graduate Woman of Excellence. Prior to graduate school, she worked for the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, where her service was recognized with a Meritorious Honor Award and the Fleet Seminar Fellowship at the Naval War College.

Professor Jackson is married to Luke Tarbi, a senior marketing executive, angel investor, and former Navy officer. They have one son and live in the Moss Hill neighborhood of Boston. Their family spends their free time hiking and skiing the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

 
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Publications Awards & Honors

Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • Jackson, Summer R. "(Not) Paying for Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment." Administrative Science Quarterly 68, no. 3 (September 2023): 824–866. View Details
  • Jackson, Summer R., and Katherine C. Kellogg. "Triadic Advocacy Work." Organization Science 34, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 456–483. View Details

Working Papers
Working Papers

  • Jackson, Summer R., and Basima Tewfik. "Was That a Microaggression: A Multilevel Theory of Microaggression Sensemaking." Working Paper, 2023. View Details
  • Jackson, Summer R., Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, and Ray Reagans. "An Organizational Dilemma: A Framework for Considering and Countering Racism by Formal Organizations." Working Paper, 2023. View Details
All Publications

Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who studies issues of identity, inequality, and diversity at work. She has worked with numerous fast-growth technology companies on their DEI initiatives to uncover policies and practices that support building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. Her research has been recognized with the INFORMS Best Dissertation Award and has appeared in scholarly and news outlets such as Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, MIT News and Harvard Business Review. She is on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science.

Professor Jackson is a graduate of Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was recognized as a Presidential Fellow and Graduate Woman of Excellence. Prior to graduate school, she worked for the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, where her service was recognized with a Meritorious Honor Award and the Fleet Seminar Fellowship at the Naval War College.

Professor Jackson is married to Luke Tarbi, a senior marketing executive, angel investor, and former Navy officer. They have one son and live in the Moss Hill neighborhood of Boston. Their family spends their free time hiking and skiing the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

 
Journal Articles
  • Jackson, Summer R. "(Not) Paying for Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment." Administrative Science Quarterly 68, no. 3 (September 2023): 824–866. View Details
  • Jackson, Summer R., and Katherine C. Kellogg. "Triadic Advocacy Work." Organization Science 34, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 456–483. View Details
Working Papers
  • Jackson, Summer R., and Basima Tewfik. "Was That a Microaggression: A Multilevel Theory of Microaggression Sensemaking." Working Paper, 2023. View Details
  • Jackson, Summer R., Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, and Ray Reagans. "An Organizational Dilemma: A Framework for Considering and Countering Racism by Formal Organizations." Working Paper, 2023. View Details
Awards & Honors
Recipient of an MIT Sloan PhD Fellowship, 2016–2021.
Winner of the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “Understanding Organizational Inequality at ‘Well Intentioned’ Companies: The Case of ShopCo’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies and Practices.”
Recipient of Funding Support and Participant in the NYU Stern Diverse Pathways in Academia Conference in 2019.
Selected for the 2020 OB Doctoral Consortium by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.
Named as an MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Honoree in 2019.
Recipient of Fieldwork Funding Support from the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative, 2018–2019.
Selected for the 2018 Medici Summer Research Institute.
Recipient of an MIT Presidential Fellowship in 2016.
Recipient of Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State in 2015.
Selected for the Fleet Seminar Fellowship, Naval War College, 2014–2015.
Recipient of the Haas-Koshland Memorial Award for 2008–2009 (Haifa, Israel).
Recipient of the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship in the 2007 (Cairo, Egypt).
Additional Information
  • Summer Jackson Personal Website
  • Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest
  • diversity
  • economic sociology
  • ethnography
  • organizational behavior
  • qualitative research
In The News

In The News

    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Talking About Organizations

    Gendering in Organizations—Joan Acker

    • 04 Jan 2023
    • MIT Sloan Management Review

    Beyond Bias: Improving Workplace Diversity in the Age of Algorithms

    • 20 Dec 2022
    • MIT Sloan Management Review

    Studying the cultures of companies

    • 01 Nov 2022
    • Harvard Business Review

    Making Pay Equity Work for All

    • 12 May 2022
    • Harvard Business School

    Behind the Research: Summer Jackson

→More News for Summer R. Jackson

Summer R. Jackson In the News

14 Mar 2023
Talking About Organizations
Gendering in Organizations—Joan Acker

04 Jan 2023
MIT Sloan Management Review
Beyond Bias: Improving Workplace Diversity in the Age of Algorithms

20 Dec 2022
MIT Sloan Management Review
Studying the cultures of companies

01 Nov 2022
Harvard Business Review
Making Pay Equity Work for All

12 May 2022
Harvard Business School
Behind the Research: Summer Jackson

31 Mar 2021
MIT Sloan Management Review
A new barrier to diverse hiring in tech

19 Nov 2021
Harvard Business School
New Faculty Profiles: Summer Jackson

Additional Information
Summer Jackson Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest

diversity
economic sociology
ethnography
organizational behavior
qualitative research

In The News

    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Talking About Organizations

    Gendering in Organizations—Joan Acker

    • 04 Jan 2023
    • MIT Sloan Management Review

    Beyond Bias: Improving Workplace Diversity in the Age of Algorithms

    • 20 Dec 2022
    • MIT Sloan Management Review

    Studying the cultures of companies

    • 01 Nov 2022
    • Harvard Business Review

    Making Pay Equity Work for All

    • 12 May 2022
    • Harvard Business School

    Behind the Research: Summer Jackson

→More News for Summer R. Jackson

Summer R. Jackson In the News

14 Mar 2023
Talking About Organizations
Gendering in Organizations—Joan Acker

04 Jan 2023
MIT Sloan Management Review
Beyond Bias: Improving Workplace Diversity in the Age of Algorithms

20 Dec 2022
MIT Sloan Management Review
Studying the cultures of companies

01 Nov 2022
Harvard Business Review
Making Pay Equity Work for All

12 May 2022
Harvard Business School
Behind the Research: Summer Jackson

31 Mar 2021
MIT Sloan Management Review
A new barrier to diverse hiring in tech

19 Nov 2021
Harvard Business School
New Faculty Profiles: Summer Jackson

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