Elena Obukhova

Elena Obukhova is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Obukhova is an economic sociologist with interests in labor markets, social networks, and identity. With Daphne Demetry, she is currently researching entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her work uses a variety of methods, including survey research, interviews, simulations, experiments, and big data. Her research has been featured in Huffington Post, Academy of Management Insights, The Conversation, and on CNPolitics.org.

Obukhova is a recipient of several Insight Development grants from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, and two Fellowships from the Social Science Research Council. She currently serves on editorial boards of Organization Science and Management and Organization Review.

Obukhova is passionate about teaching International Business and has taught courses in this field at BCom, MBA, and Ph.D. levels. Her innovative NAFTA & Fake News assignment has been featured in the McGill Reporter and on the McGill Teaching and Learning Services Blog.

A native of Russia, she is professionally fluent in Mandarin and has been conducting research in China since 1995. Before joining Desautels, Obukhova had been a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Degree(s):

• PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago, USA
• MSc, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University, USA
• BA, Anthropology, University of Florida, USA