Daphné Baldassari is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organization Department at USC's Marshall School. Her research focuses on strategic management, labor markets, and gender. Specifically, she examines the strategic responses of firms to structural diversity interventions aimed at disrupting organizational practices and processes that perpetuate inequalities within and outside firms. Her research program explores a variety of diversity interventions, such as the diversification of evaluation committees and the implementation of diversity disclosure regulations.
She received her Ph.D. from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research received multiple conference awards and was shortlisted as a finalist in the INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal Competition.
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Interviewed: Daphné Baldassari on Radio Canada (French)
Baldassari, assistant professor of management and operations, discusses with Radio Canada's Marjorie April the suspension of diversity initiatives in many large U.S. companies and the freezing of diversity roles during the Trump administration.
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USC Marshall in the Media: January 2025
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