Curriculum Vitae Jennifer Merluzzi Personal Data Business Address: Office 610, GW1 A.B. Freeman School of Business Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118-5669 Telephone: (504)-862-8006 Fax: (504)-865-6751 Home Address: 4100 Vincennes Place New Orleans, LA 70125 Mobile: (312)-961-2206 Email: jmerluzz@tulane.edu Academic Background Ph.D., Organizations and Markets, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, May 2010 Dissertation Title: Informal networks and the modern professional managerial career: Four studies of interpersonal influence on career decisions and outcomes Dissertation Committee: Ron Burt (Chair), Damon Phillips, Stanislav Dobrev, Matthew Bothner, Elizabeth Pontikes M.B.A., Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, May, 1997 Recipient of Scholars in Business Scholarship, Mark Twain Bancshares B.A. in English and Sociology, Tulane University, May, 1993 Recipient of Dean s Honor Scholarship (four years full tuition) Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Professional Experience Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, July 2011 present. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, June 2010 - June 2011. Independent Consultant, Clients included American Building Maintenance Industries, Inc., Equity Office, Chicago, IL, June 2003 June 2005. Manager, Keane Consulting Group, Chicago, IL, June 2000 June 2003. Senior Manager, McMaster-Carr Industrial Supply Company, June 1997 June 2000. 1
Publications in Refereed Journals Merluzzi, J. & Dobrev, S.D. 2015. Unequal on top: Gender profiling and the income gap among high earner male and female professionals. Social Science Research, 53: 45-58. Burt, Ronald S. and Merluzzi, J. 2014. Embedded brokerage. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 40 (Eds.) Daniel J. Brass, Giuseppe Labianca, Ajay Mehra, Daniel S. Halgin, and Stephen P. Borgatti. Bradford, UK: Emerald Publishing. Merluzzi, J. and Burt, R.S., 2013. How many names are enough? Identifying network effects with the least set of listed contacts. Social Networks, 2013, 35(3): 331-37. Merluzzi, J., 2013. Social capital in Asia: Investigating the influence of organizational and national culture on returns to brokerage. Social Science Research, 42(3): 882-92. Paper published in Best Paper Proceedings and Runner-Up for Carolyn Dexter Award, OMT Division at The Academy of Management Meetings, Chicago, 2009. Manuscripts Under Review Merluzzi, J. & Phillips, D.J. The specialist discount: Negative returns for MBAs with focused profiles in investment banking. Conditional Acceptance at Administrative Science Quarterly, April 2015. Burt, R.S. and Merluzzi, J., Path dependent network advantage: The serial closure hypothesis. Revise and Resubmit at Organization Science, November 2014. Merluzzi, J. & Phillips, D.J. Leadership and the single woman penalty: A role expectations account of early career barriers to promotion for female MBAs. Under Review at American Sociological Review, April 2015. Merluzzi, J. Where are the Queen Bees? A study of gender and difficult work relationships at two firms. Under Review at Organization Science, April 2015. Dobrev, S.D. and Merluzzi, J. Social Capital and Career Patterns: The Effect of Embeddedness and Boundary-Spanning on Job Transitions between Organizations. Under Review at Academy of Management Discoveries, June 2015. Merluzzi, J. and Sterling, A. Lasting Effects? Hiring through Referrals and the Post- Entry Career Outcomes of Women and Minorities. Under Review at Industrial Labor Relations Review, July 2015. Manuscripts In Preparation Merluzzi, J. Women s paths into entrepreneurship. Research report - featured in Capital Ideas, December 2013 Project under data collection, 2015. 2
Refereed Conference Presentations Merluzzi, J. 2015. New directions for research on the mechanisms of career mobility. - Accepted at Professional Development Workshop, Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada, August 2015. Merluzzi, J. and Sterling, A. Lasting Effects? Hiring through Referrals and the Post- Entry Career Outcomes of Women and Minorities. - ILR/Cornell Conference on Increasing Inclusion/Reducing Discrimination: What Works? New York, NY, June 2015. Merluzzi, J. and Phillips, D.J. Leadership and the single woman penalty: A role expectations account of early career barriers to promotion for female MBAs. - Accepted for presentation, INFORMS Conference, Philadelphia PA, 2015 - Annual meeting, American Economic Association, Panel on Diversity in the Professions, Boston, MA, 2015 - Annual meeting, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2014. - Annual meeting, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), 2014. - Wharton s People and Organizations Conference, 2013. - Second Annual Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2013. Merluzzi, J. Where are the Queen Bees? A study of gender and difficult work relationships at two firms. - Wharton s People and Organizations Conference, 2014. - Annual meeting, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Merluzzi, J. and Phillips, D.J. The fallacy of focus: Variance in investment banking bonuses in starting offers for focused MBAs. - Presented at seminar series at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2014. - Conference on Structuring Work in and around Organizations, McGill University, Montreal Canada, 2013. - Annual meeting American Sociological Association, Denver, CO, 2012. - Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA, 2012. Selected to participate in Organizations Management Theory (OMT Division) Junior Faculty Consortium at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, FL, 2013. Merluzzi, J. Gender profiling: Differences in job mobility and compensation in the early careers of male and female professionals. - Tulane University s 2012 Women Faculty Research Consortium, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2012. 3
Refereed Conference Presentations (continued) Merluzzi, J. Informal networks and organizational exit: Unhealthy support networks as influencers of decisions to leave. - The Fourth Annual Inter-Organizational Networks Conference, Lexington, KY, 2010. - Annual meeting, Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, 2010. Merluzzi, J. Selected to participate in the 2009 OMT/MOC Doctoral Student Consortium at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, 2009. Merluzzi, J. Social capital in Asia: Do Managers in Collective Cultures Benefit from Boundary Spanning? - Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, 2009. Merluzzi, J. & Dobrev, S. D. Gender earnings gaps among young professional managers: How career patterns and mobility differentially affect earnings outcomes. - Annual meeting, Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, 2009. - Annual meeting, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2009. Selected for the 2008 Dissertation Proposal Workshop for OMT Division of Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA, 2008. Dobrev, S. D. & Merluzzi, J. Social capital and career patterns: The effects of cohesion and brokerage on job transitions between organizations. - Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, 2007. Invited Talks - Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business, Atlanta, GA - Tulane University, Department of Sociology, New Orleans, LA - Washington University of St. Louis, Olin School of Business, St. Louis, MO - University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business, Salt Lake City, UT - Instituto de Empresa Business School, Strategy Department, Madrid Spain - Tulane University, A. B. Freeman School of Business, New Orleans, LA - Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart School of Business, Chicago, IL Awards and Grants - Recipient of COR Faculty International Travel Grant, Tulane University, 2014 - Recipient of COR Faculty International Travel Grant, Tulane University, 2015 4
Teaching 2011-2014 Strategic Management Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business - Three sections, Undergraduate, Masters of Accounting, Masters of Energy - Consistently awarded top instructor rating 5.5 to 5.7 (out of 6) 2010-2011 Network Structures of Effective Management University of Chicago, Booth School of Business - Two sections, part-time and full-time MBA students - Awarded 4 (out of 5) instructor rating Ad Hoc Reviews, Memberships, and Service - Faculty Representative for Hearings, Office of Student Conduct at Tulane University (2015 to present) - Faculty Representative for The Altman Program at Tulane University, a selective program for undergraduate students interested in international careers (2012- present) - Responsible for Speaker Series, Management Department, A.B. Freeman (2012-2014) - Selected as Member of Strategic Planning Committee (People Task Force), A.B. Freeman (2012-2013) - Member of Review Committee for doctoral applicants, Management Department, A.B. Freeman (2011-2013) - Reader for dissertation of Han Jiang, Strategy doctoral student (2011-2012) - Member of The Academy of Management - Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division (2006 to present) - Member of The American Sociological Association (2009 to present) - Reviewer for: - Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (2014 to present) - Management Science (2014 to present) - Administrative Science Quarterly (2014 to present) - Social Science Research (2014 to present) - Human Resource Management (2011 to present) - Organization Science (2010 to present) - Academy of Management Journal (2008 to present) - American Journal of Sociology (2008 to present) - Sociological Focus (2007 to present) 5