Oriane Georgeac

Oriane Georgeac is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. Her research interests focus on how people respond to organizational messages about diversity. In one program of research, she investigates the effects of organizations’ justifications for why they value diversity on underrepresented group members and team managers. In another stream of her research, she examines how people respond to information reflecting organizations’ achievements in increasing women’s representation in top leadership. Her research across these two streams offers novel insights into how organizations’ efforts to support diversity may paradoxically prevent them from advancing toward their diversity goals.

Dr. Georgeac's work has been published in top journals in psychology and management, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,

Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. Her work has also won multiple awards, and has been covered by a variety of media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Economist, The Telegraph, and The Hill.

Dr. Georgeac got her PhD from London Business School. Prior to joining BU, she worked at Yale University's School of Management from 2020-2023. In addition to her research, Dr. Georgeac currently teaches Negotiations in the MBA and undergraduate programs at Questrom School of Business.

Research Interests

• Diversity in the workplace
• Cases for diversity
• Intergroup relations
• Perceptions of social progress
• Gender inequality
• Attitudes towards women
• Motivation
• Mindsets and lay theories

Education

• 2020 London Business School
  Ph.D. in Organisational Behaviour
• 2017 London Business School
  M.Phil. in Organisational Behaviour
• 2014 University Paris Descartes (Paris V)
  MS in Cognitive Science, magna cum laude
• 2013 HEC Paris
  MS in Management (Grande Ecole)
  • Exchange program at the University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2009 Lycée Henri IV
  
  • Classe préparatoire in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Geopolitics

Selected Publications

• Georgeac, O., Rattan, A. (2023). "The business case for diversity backfires: Detrimental effects of organizations’ instrumental diversity rhetoric for underrepresented group members’ sense of belonging.", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124 (1), 69-108
• Georgeac, O., Rattan, A. (2022). "Perceiving progress toward social equality: A model of signals and sense-making", Current Opinion in Psychology, 44 12-17
• van Kleef, G., Heerdink, M., Cheshin, A., Stamkou, E., Wanders, F., Koning, L., Fang, X., Georgeac, O. (2021). "No guts, no glory? How risk-taking shapes dominance, prestige, and leadership endorsement.", Journal of Applied Psychology, 106 (11), 1673-1694
• Georgeac, O., Rattan, A. (2019). "Progress in women’s representation in top leadership weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains.", Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148 (8), 1435-1453
• Georgeac, O., Rattan, A., Effron, D. (2019). "An Exploratory Investigation of Americans’ Expression of Gender Bias Before and After the 2016 Presidential Election", Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10 (5), 632-642
• Rattan, A., Georgeac, O. (2017). "Understanding intergroup relations through the lens of implicit theories (mindsets) of malleability", Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11 (4), e12305-e12305
• Rattan, A., Georgeac, O. (2017). Mindsets about malleability and intergroup relations."The science of lay theories – How beliefs shape our cognition, behavior, and health", Springer

Awards And Honors

• 2023, IACM Outstanding Publication Award (Winner), International Association for Conflict Management
• 2022, William C. Frederick Doctoral Dissertation Award (Top 3 Finalist), Academy of Management
• 2022, Outstanding Case Writer Competition (Finalist), The Case Centre
• 2021, Annual Dissertation Award (Top 3 Finalist), Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• 2021, Best Dissertation Award (Top 3 Finalist), Society for Business Ethics
• 2021, Best Paper Based on a Dissertation Award (Winner), Academy of Management
• 2020, Outstanding Research Award (Winner), Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• 2020, Responsible Research in Management Award (Finalist), Community for Responsible Research in Management, International Association for Chinese Management Research,