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Colleen Stuart, PhD

Associate Professor

Academic Area(s): Management & Organization

Area(s) of Interest: Organizational Behavior

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Colleen Stuart, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Management & Organization and founding co-director of the Gender & Work Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Her research examines inequality in organizations and occupations, collaborative work, and digital transparency, with particular attention to how organizational structures and practices shape gender gaps at work. Her work has been published in leading journals across management and computer science, including Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. She has received several Best Paper awards and nominations from the Academy of Management, the Wharton People Analytics Conference, and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

Colleen teaches in experiential learning courses in Carey's Full-Time MBA program and has taught executive education courses at Johns Hopkins' business and medical schools. Prior to joining the Carey faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and earned her PhD from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Education

  • PhD, Organizational Behaviour, University of Toronto
  • BBA, Business Administration, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research

Selected publications

  • Stuart, H. C., & Galperin, R. V. (2026). The quantity-quality tradeoff: How incentives and monitoring shape gender differences at work. Organization Science, 37(1), 71-89.
  • Ruppanner, L, Swenson, H., Mangino, K., Stuart, H.C., Smith D.G., & Dickens, M. (2026, July 24). The invisible work draining your best employees, Harvard Business Review. hbr.org
  • Williams, A., Stuart, H. C., Perrin, N., Heise, L., Anglewicz, P., & Decker, M. R. (2025). Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low-and middle-income countries. World Development, 186, 106846.
  • Williams, A., Heise, L., Perrin, N., Stuart, H. C., & Decker, M. R. (2024). Does going against the norm on women’s economic participation increase intimate partner violence risk? A cross-sectional, multi-national study. Global Health Research and Policy, 9(1), 53.
  • Williams, A., Wood, S., Stuart, H. C., Wamue-Ngare, G., Thiong, M., Gichangi, P., Devoto, B., & Decker, M. R. (2022). Gendered time use during Covid-19 among adolescents and young adults in Nairobi, Kenya. eClinicalMedicine, 49.
  • Decker, M. R., Wood, S. N., Thiongo, M., Byrne, M. E., Devoto, B., Morgan, R., Bevilacqua, K., Williams, A., Stuart, H. C., Wamue, G., Heise, L., Glass, N., Anglewicz, P., Gummerson, E., & Gichangi, P. (2021). Gendered health, economic, social and safety impact of COVID-19 on adolescents and young adults in Nairobi, Kenya. PLoS ONE, 16(11), 1-21.
  • Stuart, H. C., Moon, S. H., & Casciaro, T. (2018). Penalty for Success? Career Achievement and Gender Differences in Divorce. In The Work-Family Interface: Spillover, Complications, and Challenges (pp. 265-289). Emerald Publishing Limited.
  • Stuart H. C., & Moore, C. (2017). Shady characters: The implications of illicit organizational roles for resilient team performance. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 1963-1985.
  • Stuart, H. C. (2017). Structural disruption, relational experimentation, and performance in professional hockey teams: A network perspective on member change. Organizational Science, 28(2), 283-300.
  • Dabbish, L., Stuart, H. C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2013). Leveraging transparency. IEEE Software, 30(1), 37-43.
  • Dabbish, L., Stuart, H. C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2012). Social coding in GitHub: Transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. CSCW 2012: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.
  • Stuart, H. C., Dabbish, L., Kiesler, S., Kinnard, P., & Kang, R. (2012). Social transparency in networked information exchange: A theoretical framework. CSCW 2012: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

Teaching

Current

  • MBA Courses
    • Innovation Field Project
    • Data Science: Big Data Consulting Project

Honors and distinctions

  • Nexus Convening, Co-PI, Advancing Gender Equity Research to Create Sustainable Change, Johns Hopkins University, 2024-2025
  • Discovery Award, Co-PI, Collaborative for Gender Equity and Empowerment in Education and Labor Systems, Johns Hopkins University, 2019-2021
  • Winner, Best Paper for Extra-organizational determinants of careers: Gendered expert authority and attainment of patent examiners, OMT Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2019
  • Winner, Research Paper Competition for Extra-organizational determinants of careers: Gendered expert authority and attainment of patent examiners, Wharton People Analytics Conference, 2019
  • Faculty Recognition Award for Teaching, 2016
  • Winner, Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2012
  • Nominee, William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2012
  • Nominee, Best Paper, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 2012
  • Winner, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2008