Alison Cook, Ph.D.

Field: Management
Areas of Focus: Women in Management, Women on Boards

Expertise

• Women in top management
• Women's access to top management
• The Glass Cliff
• Women on boards
• Outcomes for board women

Bio

Dr. Alison Cook received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Her research examines diversity in the workplace, specifically focusing on the factors that either facilitate or hinder promotion opportunities for women and racial/ethnic minorities and factors that facilitate or hinder their post-promotion success. Dr. Cook’s work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, and Journal of Business Ethics, among others. Her work has also been featured in The New York Times, Public Radio International, Fortune, NPR, Associated Press, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, and Bloomberg News.