Allie Feldberg

Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School.

Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine intersections between gender, knowledge-transfer, technology, and discrimination within firms. Across settings and industries, she has developed three lines of research that consider (1) how new technologies and big data in the workplace are shifting men’s and women’s performance outcomes and relationship networks, (2) what men and women prioritize to do their jobs and advance their careers, and (3) the extent to which frontline employees discriminate in the information and services they provide to customers. Her research has been featured in outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.

Professor Feldberg earned a BA in History from Columbia College at Columbia University and an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners, a staff member at Columbia University, and an Education Pioneers Fellow with Teach For America.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Ely, R., and A. Feldberg. "Organizational Remedies for Discrimination." In The Oxford Handbook of Workplace Discrimination, edited by Adrienne J. Colella and Eden B. King, 387–410. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  

PUBLICATIONS FOR PRACTITIONERS

• Feldberg, Alexandra C., and Tami Kim. "How Companies Can Identify Racial and Gender Bias in Their Customer Service." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 28, 2018).
  

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Feldberg, Alexandra C., and Tami Kim. "Fighting Bias on the Front Lines." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 90–98.
  

CASES AND TEACHING MATERIALS

• Feldberg, Alexandra C., Letian Zhang, and Anthony J. Mayo. "A Framework for Understanding Racial Disadvantage within Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 422-035, October 2021.
  
• Feldberg, Alexandra C., and Anthony J. Mayo. "Brief Note on Portraying HBS Case Protagonists." Harvard Business School Background Note 421-050, May 2021.
  

AWARDS & HONORS

• Winner of the 2019 Harvard Business School Doctoral Programs Dean's Award.
• Winner of the 2018 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research.
• Recipient of a 2018 Eric M. Mindich Research Fund for the Foundations of Human Behavior Grant.
• Winner of the 2017 Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management. This award is given annually to the author of the best paper submitted to the Annual Academy of Management Meeting in the GDO division.
• Recipient of a 2017 Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Graduate Student Fellowship.
• Recipient of the 2015 John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling from Harvard University.
• Awarded the 2014 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.