# Lisa Leslie

0 lml262 [Tenured or Tenure Track](/taxonomy/term/4799) Professor of Management and Organizations Edward J. Giblin Faculty Fellow, 2019-2022 2013       ![Lisa Leslie profile photo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_543h/public/media/lleslie.jpg?h=77cb1bd1&itok=8YDZlvlK)

Tisch Hall

40 West Fourth Street, 717

New York, NY 10012

717 0 - A.B., Social Psychology

Princeton University
- M.A., Organizational Psychology

University of Maryland
- Ph.D., Organizational Psychology

University of Maryland

- Leadership in Organizations
- Research Design and Development

Lisa M. Leslie joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations in July 2013.

Professor Leslie's research focuses on strategies for facilitating social justice and strong performance in diverse organizations. She also conducts research in the related areas of cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management.

Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Leslie spent six years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Professor Leslie received her A.B. in Social Psychology from Princeton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland.

Management

- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, DEI
- Global Expansion
- Organizational Behavior
- Teams & Collaboration
- Women in Business

- Diversity
- Cross-cultural organizational behavior
- Conflict management

- **Academy of Management Review,**  Outstanding Reviewer Award (2021)
- **AOM-OB Division,**  Outstanding Publication Award Finalist (2021)
- **AOM-GDO Division,**  Sage Award for Enduring Scholarly Contributions to the Field (2021)
- **Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,**  Fellow (2020)
- **Academy of Management Review,**  Best Paper Award Finalist (2020)
- **AOM-HR Division,**  Scholarly Achievement Award for Best Published Paper (2020)
- **AOM-OB Division,**  Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award Nominee (2019)
- **AOM-HR Division,**  Scholarly Achievement Award for Best Published Paper (2018)
- **SPSP Diversity Travel Award Program,**  Admired Scholar (2018)
- **Poets & Quants,**  Top 40 Most Outstanding MBA Professors under 40 (2017)
- **AOM-CM Division,**  Most Influential Paper Award (2017)
- **Academy of Management Journal,**  Outstanding Reviewer Award (2016)
- **AOM Annual Meeting,**  Best Paper proceedings (2016)
- **Journal of Business and Psychology,**  Reviewer of the Year Award (2016)
- **Parasuraman Outstanding Gender and Diversity Publication,**  Nominee (2015)
- **Stern School of Business,**  Dale E. Zand Best Paper Award in Management (2015)
- **SIOP,**  William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for Best Published Paper (2014)
- **Stern School of Business,**  Runner-up, Dale E. Zand Best Paper Award in Management (2014)
- **AOM Annual Meeting,**  Outstanding Reviewer Award (2014)
- **Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research,**  Finalist (2013)

- Flynn, E., & Leslie, L. M. (2023)

[ Progressive or pressuring? The signaling effects of egg freezing coverage and other work-life policies.](https://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/management/Syllabi/Flynn_Leslie_Egg_Freezing_2023.pdf)
- Leslie, L.M., Bono, J.E., Kim, Y., & Beaver, G.R. (2020)

[On melting pots and salad bowls: A meta-analysis of the effects of identity-blind and identity-conscious diversity ideologies](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/ep89/syllabi/leslie_LeslieBonoKimBeaver2020.pdf)
- Leslie, L. M. (2019)

[Diversity Initiative Effectiveness: A Typological Theory of Unintended Consequences. Academy of Management Review, 44(3), 538-563.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/ep89/syllabi/leslie2019diversityinitiativeeffectiveness.pdf)
- Leslie, L. M., Manchester, C. F., & Dahm, P. C. (2017)

[Why and when does the gender gap reverse? Diversity goals and the pay premium for high potential women.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/sworthen/leslie/lesliefemaleprem_amj2017.pdf)

Academy of Management Journal, 60, 402-422
- Leslie, L. M. (2017)

[A status-based multilevel model of ethnic diversity and work unit performance. Journal of Management.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/sworthen/leslie/ethnicstatusdiversity2016.pdf)
- Leslie, L. M., Mayer, D. M., & Kravitz, D. A. (2014)

[The stigma of affirmative action: A stereotyping-based theory and meta-analytic test of the consequences for performance. Academy of Management Journal.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/sworthen/leslie/aastigma2014.pdf)
- Manchester, C. F., Leslie, L. M., & Kramer, A. (2013)

[Is the clock still ticking? An evaluation of the consequences of stopping the tenure clock. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 66, 3-31.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/sworthen/leslie/stc2013.pdf)
- Leslie, L. M., Snyder, M., and Glomb, T. M. (2013)

[Who gives? Multilevel effects of gender and ethnicity on workplace charitable giving. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 49-62.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/sworthen/leslie/diversity&workplacecharity2013.pdf)
- Leslie, L. M., Manchester, C. F., Park, T. Y., & Mehng, S. A. (2012)

[Flexible work practices: A source of career premiums or penalties? Academy of Management Journal, 55, 1407-1428.](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/sworthen/leslie/fwp2012.pdf)
- Leslie, L. M., Flynn, E., Foster-Gimbel, O. A., & Manchester, C. F.

[Happy talk: Is common diversity rhetoric effective diversity rhetoric?](https://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/management/Syllabi/Leslie_et_al_Happy_Talk.pdf)

[https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv\_lml262\_20250618.pdf](https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv_lml262_20250618.pdf)