Modupe Akinola

Modupe Nyikoale Akinola is an American psychologist who is an Associate Professor of Management at the Columbia Business School. Her research considers how workplace environments impact stress and performance. She has studied workforce diversity and strategies that look to diversify the talent pool.

Modupe Nyikoale Akinola
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
ThesisDeadly decisions : an examination of racial bias in the decision to shoot under threat (2009)
WebsiteModupeAkinola.com

Early life and education

Akinola earned her bachelor's, master's, Master of Business Administration and doctorate at Harvard University. Her bachelor's dissertation considered the us vs. them dynamic and how it impacts self-esteem.[1] Her graduate research involved looking at racial bias in the decision to fire weapons when under threat.[2]

Research and career

Akinola joined Columbia Business School in 2009, where she has led initiatives on how to teach and institutionalise diversity, equity and inclusion. Akinola has studied the influence of stereotyping in academia, working with Katy Milkman and Dolly Chugh on an audit of how professors respond to emails from prospective students of different ethnicities and genders.[3] They found that faculty were significantly more responsive to Caucasian men than any other categories, especially when disciplines were more high paying or institutions were private.[4][5][6] The study exposed the snap-judgements made within academia, and how these stereotypes influence diversity of students and staff.[7] She argued that these results indicated that to diversify the pool of postgraduate students would require systemic change to academic culture.[8] In her examinations of workforce diversity, Akinola found that women were not only less likely to delegate than men but more likely to feel guilty about doing so. As a result, they have less time to focus on big-picture research and miss chances to train junior scientists.[9][10]

Alongside her work on equity and inclusion, Akinola has studied the personality characteristics that make people more creative, and found that there was a correlation between sadness, anger and creativity.[11][12]

Throughout 2020, Akinola was involved in the Columbia University response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movements.[13] In 2020 Akinola was made Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.[13] She hosts the TED talk podcast TED Business, which will explore TED talks that focus on the business world.[14]

Awards and honours

Selected publications
  • Akinola, Modupe; Mendes, Wendy Berry (2011). "Stress Exacerbates Shooting Errors Among Police Officers". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1864285. ISSN 1556-5068.
  • Akinola, Modupe; Mendes, Wendy Berry (2008-10-02). "The Dark Side of Creativity: Biological Vulnerability and Negative Emotions Lead to Greater Artistic Creativity". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 34 (12): 1677–1686. doi:10.1177/0146167208323933. ISSN 0146-1672. PMC 2659536. PMID 18832338.
  • Milkman, Katherine L.; Akinola, Modupe; Chugh, Dolly (2012-07-01). "Temporal Distance and Discrimination: An Audit Study in Academia". Psychological Science. 23 (7): 710–717. doi:10.1177/0956797611434539. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 22614463. S2CID 6706060.

References
  1. Akinola, Modupe Nyikoale (1996). The us vs. them dynamic: an investigation of negative evaluation in groups and its impact on self-esteem and task motivation (Thesis). OCLC 78260215.
  2. Akinola, Modupe (2009). Deadly decisions: an examination of racial bias in the decision to shoot under threat (Thesis). OCLC 664021733.
  3. "Bias, Bias Everywhere". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  4. Milkman, Katherine L.; Akinola, Modupe; Chugh, Dolly (2014-12-13). "What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations". Rochester, NY. SSRN 2063742. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Chugh, Dolly; Milkman, Katherine L.; Akinola, Modupe (2014-05-09). "Opinion | Professors Are Prejudiced, Too (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  6. Waldman, Katy (2014-04-23). "Tips for Finding a Great Mentor: Be White and Be Male". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  7. Brabaw, Katy Milkman,Kassie. "Stereotypes Harm Black Lives and Livelihoods, but Research Suggests Ways to Improve Things". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  8. "Diversifying the Pool of PhD Students Will Require Systemic Change". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  9. Ma, Michelle (2019-10-12). "Women Are Less Likely to Delegate Than Men—and That Might Hurt Their Careers". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  10. "How Women's Reluctance to Delegate Can Hurt Their Careers: The Broadsheet". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  11. "Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  12. "The Creativity of Anger". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  13. School, Columbia Business (2020-09-02). "Modupe Akinola Appointed Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics". Newsroom. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  14. "TED announces an exciting new slate of podcasts | TED Blog". Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  15. "MLK Scholars with expertise in Business & Finance". MIT. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  16. "2020 Publication Awards". AOM_CMS. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
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