Rate My Professor Yuan Tian

Yuan Tian is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations in the Business & Economics faculty at New York University Shanghai, a degree-granting portal campus of New York University. Her research centers on cumulative advantage, with a primary focus on labor markets, gender, inequality, and innovation. Tian holds a PhD in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MPhil in Social Sciences from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a BBA in Finance and Operations Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to her current appointment, she conducted her doctoral research at Northwestern University.

Tian's academic interests include status and reputation, innovation and science, computational social science, and stakeholders and corporate social responsibility. She examines critical issues such as the paradox of diversity achievement in higher education arising from misalignments between resource allocation and valuation, the influence of organizational status on employment-related corporate social responsibility using regression discontinuity methods, and how gender-diverse teams generate more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas. Her scholarship has appeared in premier outlets including Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Key publications are 'Stretched Thin: How A Misalignment Between Allocation and Valuation Underlies the Paradox of Diversity Achievement in Higher Education' (with Edward B. Smith, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2024), 'Effect of Organizational Status on Employment-related Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach' (with Brayden King and Edward B. Smith, Strategic Management Journal, 2023), and 'Gender-diverse Teams Produce More Novel and Higher Impact Scientific Ideas' (with Yang Yang, Teresa K. Woodruff, Benjamin F. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, PNAS, 2022). Through these contributions, Tian advances knowledge in organizational theory and strategic management, shedding light on persistent inequalities and the dynamics of diverse collaboration in academia and beyond.