{"id":11707,"date":"2019-05-08T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=11707"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T21:26:39","slug":"guest-speaker-seminar-may-15-lauren-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=11707","title":{"rendered":"Guest Speaker Seminar, May 15: Lauren Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear RSF,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join me next Wednesday, May 15, at 11:00 for a\nseminar by Lauren Rivera titled <em>Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender\nBias, and the Architecture of Evaluation.&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rivera is Associate Professor of Management &amp;\nOrganizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University as\nwell as Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy) at the Weinberg College\nof Arts &amp; Sciences.&nbsp; She is an expert on workplace personnel\npractices, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has written\nextensively on hiring and promotion practices in elite professional service\nfirms. Her award-winning book&nbsp;<em>Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite\nJobs<\/em>&nbsp;(Princeton University Press, 2015) investigates hiring decisions\nfor top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms. Her research\nhas been featured in the&nbsp;<em>Atlantic<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Economist<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Financial\nTimes<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Fortune<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;New York Times<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Wall Street\nJournal<\/em>, and NPR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recognition for her work, Professor Rivera received the\nAmerican Sociological Association&#8217;s William Julius Wilson Early Career Award.\nShe has been named one of the top 40 business school professors under 40\nby&nbsp;<em>Poets &amp; Quants<\/em>&nbsp;and a rising management star by\nThinkers50. She received her B.A. in sociology and developmental psychology\nfrom Yale University and her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear RSF, Please join me next Wednesday, May 15, at 11:00 for a seminar by Lauren Rivera titled Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation.&nbsp; Rivera is Associate Professor of Management &amp; Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University as well as Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=11707\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guest Speaker Seminar, May 15: Lauren Rivera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46193801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wednesday-seminars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Lauren_R2.jpg?fit=310%2C202&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}