Mabel Abraham

Biography

Mabel Abraham is the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. Her research examines how organizational and social network processes contribute to gender differences in economic outcomes. In one recent project, Professor Abraham compares the relative benefits received by male and female entrepreneurs through strategic social networks aimed at generating new clients. In other related work, she has examined how evaluation processes affect the attention and recognition investment professionals receive from their professional peers. Professor Abraham’s research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly and has been recognized by a number of leading awards including the Academy of Management’s Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, the INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition, the American Association of University Women American Fellowship, and the Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Her research has also been featured in several media outlets, including Bloomberg, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Professor Abraham worked in defined benefits consulting and risk management at Fidelity Investments. She completed her PhD in Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Research

Journal articles

• Gender Role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: The Case of Resource Exchange among Entrepreneurs In Administrative Science Quarterly (forthcoming)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham

• Pay Formalization Revisited: Considering the Effects of Manager Gender and Discretion on Closing the Gender Wage Gap In Academy of Management Journal (2017)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham

• Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process In Administrative Science Quarterly (2017)
  Coauthor(s): Tristan Botelho, Mabel Abraham

Web-only articles

• To Overcome Gender Bias, Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough In LSE Business Review (2017)
  Coauthor(s): Tristan Botelho, Mabel Abraham

Working papers

• Congruence between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano

• Gender Parity in Running for Office: Female and Male Elected Officials Run for Higher Office at Equivalent Rates (2019)
  Coauthor(s): B. Pike, K. Wald, Mabel Abraham, Adam Galinsky

• Leadership Gender and Social Claims Affect the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano

• Social Comparison in Tie-Formation: Which Reference Groups Are Relevant? (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Mathijs De Vaan, Dan Wang

• Structural Predictors of Gender Pay Inequality (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, J. Song

• The Effect of Diversity Claims Decoupling (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano, John Carter

• Understanding the Labor Market for Entrepreneurs (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Tristan Botelho

• Unpacking the Boundary Conditions and Heterogeneous Effects of Homophily (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Tristan Botelho

• Women Don't Run? Gender and Experience Interact to Predict Political Candidate Emergence (2019)
  Coauthor(s): B. Pike, K. Wald, Mabel Abraham, Adam Galinsky

Ideas and Insights

• Uncovering the Drivers of Gender Inequality (2020)
  
• Necessary but Not Sufficient (2018)
  

Awards And Honors

• Mark Granovetter Award for best Article in Economic Sociology.
  2018 Mark Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology.Third Place, Wharton,People Analytics Research Paper Competition.

• 2015 Provost's Small Grants Program for Junior Faculty, Columbia Business School, 2015

• 2015 William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Academy of Management, Nominee

• 2015 MIT Sloan School of Management Doctoral Thesis Prize, 2nd place

• 2014 Dissertation Proposal Competition, INFORMS/Organization Science, Winner

• 2008 MIT Presidential Fellowship Award