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L. Taylor Phillips

  • Associate Professor of Management & Organizations

Joined Stern 2016

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Tisch Hall

40 West Fourth Street, 719

New York, NY 10012

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About L. Taylor Phillips

L. Taylor Phillips joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations in July 2016.

Professor Phillips’ research investigates diversity and hierarchy management. Her work focuses on engaging traditionally privileged groups in diversity efforts and identifying methods to increase cooperation between the advantaged and disadvantaged. She also explores the role advantaging processes play in determining employee and organizational outcomes. She has published research in leading management and psychology journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Research in Organizational Behavior. Professor Phillips' work has also been covered by a variety of media outlets, including NPR and Stanford GSB Insights.

She received a B.A. in Psychology and Human Biology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

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  • Management and Organizations
  • Privilege
  • Inequality
  • Diversity, Inclusion, D&I
  • Race, gender, social class
  • Culture
  • Hierarchy & power
  • Management
    • Corporate Culture
    • Decision Making & Policy
    • Diversity, Inclusion, D&I
    • Hierarchy Management
    • Inequality
    • Privilege
    • Race, Gender, Social Class
    • Social Psychology
  • Management and Organizations
  • Research Methods

  • Ph.D., Business Administration

    Stanford University

  • B.A., Psychology and Human Biology

    Stanford University

  • International Society for Justice Research, Early Career Award (2023)

  • Association for Psychological Science, Rising Star Early Career Award (2021)

  • Poets &Quants, Best Undergraduate Professors (2020)

  • Stanford University, SPARQ Faculty Affiliate (2018)

  • Social Class Pre-Conference, Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Early Career Scholar Speaker (2016)

  • Group Process & Intergroup Relations, Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Early Career Scholar Speaker (2015)

  • Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University, DARE Doctoral Fellowship (Diversifying Academia Recruiting Excellence) (2014)

  • Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, Graduate Voice and Influence Program (2014)

  • Stanford University, SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions) (2013)

  • National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2011)

  • Craig, M.A. & Phillips, L.T. (2023)

    Group-based hierarchies of power and status.

    In L. Huddy, D. O. Sears, J. S. Levy, & J. Jerit (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology

  • Tomova Shakur, T.K., & Phillips, L.T. (2022)

    What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions.

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

  • Phillips, L.T., Jun, S., & Shakeri, A. (2022)

    Barriers and boosts: Using inequity frames theory to expand understanding of race and gender inequity.

    Academy of Management Annals, 16, 547-587.

  • Phillips, L.T. & Jun, S. (2021)

    Why benefiting from discrimination is less recognized as discrimination

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

  • Alt, N. & Phillips, L.T. (2021)

    Person perception, meet people perception: Exploring the social vision of groups

    Perspectives on Psychological Science

  • Craig, M.A. & Phillips, L.T. (2021)

    Group-based hierarchies of power and status

    In L. Huddy, D. O. Sears, J. S. Levy, & J. Jerit (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Psycholog

  • Anicich, E.M., Jachimowicz, J.M., *Osborne, M., &, Phillips, L.T. (2021)

    Structuring local environments to avoid racial diversity: Anxiety drives Whites’ geographical and institutional self-segregation preferences

    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104-117

  • Phillips, L.T. & Lowery, B.S. (2020)

    I ain’t no fortunate one: On the motivated denial of class privilege

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 1403-1422.

  • Phillips, L.T., Kreps, T.A., & Chugh, D. (2024)

    Different allies, different outcomes? How self-transcendence and self-enhancement affect ally engagement and effectiveness.

    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

  • Jun, S., Phillips, L.T., & Foster-Gimbel, O.A. (2023)

    The missing middle: Asian employees’ experience of workplace discrimination and pro-Black allyship.

    Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 225-248.

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