Vanessa Burbano

Vanessa Burbano is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Management in the strategy area at Columbia Business School.

Burbano researches the strategic implications of socially responsible and irresponsible firm practices; in particular, how they influence employee behavior. Her body of work has been recognized by her receipt of the 2021 Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management, and the 2021 Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award from the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. She was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2019 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.

Her work has been published in Organization Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, California Management Review, and Organization & Environment, Her publications have been recognized with awards including those from the Strategic Management Society, the Impact for Investment Research Prize, the Responsible Research in Management Award, the Berkeley Sustainable Business and Investment Forum, the International Association of Business & Society, the Industry Studies Association, and the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Her work has also been cited in the popular press, including in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and The Financial Times.

Burbano serves on the editorial board of Organization Science. She also serves as the Corporate Engagement Director and Executive Committee Member of LEAP, an NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) dedicated to improving the accuracy of climate projections needed for optimal adaptation to climate change.

She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management and an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to academia, she worked as an Associate at Goldman Sachs and as a Strategy Consultant at Monitor Group.

Education

• PhD UCLA Anderson School of Management (2009 — 2015)
• MA UCLA (2009 — 2011)
• MPA, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University (2007 — 2009)
• Masters Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2002 — 2003)
• B.A. University of Pennsylvania (1998 — 2002)

Companies

• Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business Columbia Business School (2021)
• Assistant Professor of Management Columbia Business School (2015 — 2021)
• PhD, Strategy and Policy UCLA Anderson School of Management (2009 — 2015)
• Program Associate Goldman Sachs Foundation (2005 — 2007)
• Strategy Consultant Monitor Group (2003 — 2005)

Memberships & Affiliations

• 2009 UCLA Anderson Doctoral Fellowship
  
• 2021 ONE and Network for Business Sustainability Research Impact on Practice Award
• 2021 Finalist, ONE and Network for Business Sustainability Research Impact on Practice Award

Research

Journal articles

• The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance: Field Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market Platform In Management Science (2021)
  Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
• Differences in Consumer-Benefiting Misconduct by Nonprofit, For-profit, and Public Organizations In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2020)
  Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, J. Ostler
• Getting Gig Workers to Do More by Doing Good: Field Experimental Evidence from Online Platform Labor Marketplaces In Organization & Environment (2019)
  Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
• Pro Bono as a Human Capital Learning and Screening Mechanism: Evidence from Law Firms In Strategic Management Journal (2018)
  Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, J. Mamer, J. Snyder
• Social Responsibility Messages and Worker Wage Requirements: Field Experimental Evidence from Online Labor Marketplaces In Organization Science (2016) Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano
• The Drivers of Greenwashing In California Management Review (2011)
  Coauthor(s): Magali Delmas, Vanessa Burbano

Working papers

• Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work (2020)
  Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, Stephan Meier, Nicolas Padilla
• When One Isn't Enough: Organization-level and Product-level Sustainability in New Ventures (2020)
  Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, N. Carlson, J. Ostler
• Future Orientation, Diversity, and Corporate Social Responsibility (2019)
  Coauthor(s): O. Hawn, Vanessa Burbano, E. Moulton-Tetlock
• Leadership Gender and Social Claims Affect the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence (2005)
  Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano