Jennifer Merluzzi
Associate Professor of Strategic Management & Public Policy at The George Washington University
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- The George Washington University
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Professor Jennifer Merluzzi specializes in research on the early careers of professional managers and labor market inequality. She conducts studies on the role of individual identity in influencing and affecting labor market outcomes, such as promotions, job offers or compensation. Her research appears in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Social Science Research, with recent coverage in FastCompany and Harvard Business Review. Professor Merluzzi's current projects include investigating referral-based hiring and promotion outcomes of minorities, examining promotion outcomes across gender and marital status, and, using social network analysis to understand gendered work conflict in organizations.
Professor Merluzzi also brings rich real-world experience to her work at the George Washington University. Prior to academia, her professional background included roles in general management, where she ran a regional call-center and managed supply chain operations at McMaster-Carr Industrial Supply Company, as well as worked in management consulting both at Keane Consulting Group and as an independent consultant.
She graduated with honors from Tulane University's Newcomb College with a BA in English and Sociology, has an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University and, received her Ph.D. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in economic sociology.
Education
- PhD University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2004 — 2010)
- MBA Washington University, John M. Olin School of Business (1995 — 1997)
- BA Tulane University (1989 — 1993)
- High School Berkeley Preparatory School (1987 — 1989)
- Cranbrook - Kingswood (1980 — 1987)
Companies
- Associate Professor (with tenure) The George Washington University - School of Business (2019)
- Assistant Professor, Strategic Management and Public Policy The George Washington University - School of Business (2017 — 2019)
- Associate Professor of Strategy & Management (with tenure) Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business (2017 — 2017)
- Assistant Professor of Strategy & Management Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business (2011 — 2017)
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organizations & Strategy University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2010 — 2011)
- Doctoral Student - Organizations & Markets University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2004 — 2010)
- Independent Consultant Independent Consultant (2003 — 2005)
- Manager Keane Consulting Group (2000 — 2003)
- Senior Manager McMaster-Carr (1997 — 2000)
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