BRITE ’21 SPEAKERS: VANESSA BURBANO

VANESSA BURBANO

Assistant Professor of Management

Columbia Business School

Vanessa Burbano is an Assistant 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 research has been recognized with awards including those from the Strategic Management Society, the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, 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, and the Industry Studies Association. 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, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, The Financial Times, and the New York Times. She was named to Poets and Quants’ 2019 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40 and received the 2021 Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management.

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.