Modupe Akinola is an expert in workforce diversity, specifically the strategies organizations employ to increase the diversity of their talent pool and the biases that affect the recruitment and retention of minorities in organizations.
Professor Akinola also researches how organizational environments — characterized by deadlines, multi-tasking, and other attributes such as having low status — can engender stress, and how this stress can have spill-over effects on performance. She uses a multi-method approach that includes behavioral observation, implicit and reaction time measures, and physiological responses (specifically hormonal and cardiovascular responses) to examine how cognitive outcomes are affected by stress.
Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Professor Akinola worked in professional services at Bain & Company and Merrill Lynch.
Associate Professor of Management, Columbia Business School
Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics