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Chris Rider

@chrisrider.bsky.social
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Thomas C. Kinnear Professor at Michigan Ross. #EquityAnalytics. Research on societal inequality, entrepreneurship, organizational theory & sports. www.chrisrider.info

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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"The 16th president of the University of Michigan must address the erosion of democratic practices at our institution, which has caused many faculty and staff to distrust university administration."
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"The 16th president of the University of Michigan must address the erosion of democratic practices at our institution, which has caused many faculty and staff to distrust university administration." @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"...ultimately, this isn’t just about legal compliance or institutional risk. It’s about whether the stories we tell about fairness will include all of us—or only those already at the center." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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The Contest Over Fairness in Higher Ed (opinion)
Not every claim of unfairness is equal, Uma Mazyck Jayakumar writes.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"As previously honored norms of shared governance are eroding, university leaders increasingly refuse to even talk to faculty anymore, preferring to govern by decree, by badly written email, and, now, by op-ed." www.chronicle.com/article/sant...
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Opinion: Santa Ono Flees for Florida
He might be better suited to red-state politics.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Wouldn't stand up to Trump, with this kind of leverage?!? Just dismantled the DEI legacy of U-M and left for Florida. news.ufl.edu/2025/05/anno...
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DR. SANTA J. ONO UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED AS SOLE FINALIST FOR UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA’S 14TH PRESIDENT
The University of Florida Presidential Search Committee has unanimously and enthusiastically recommended Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., to be considered by its Board of Trustees as the sole finalist to become t...
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Luke Shaefer joins the choir in a beautiful solo for Bridge www.bridgemi.com/guest-commen...
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Opinion | A time for courage: U-M and DEI | Bridge Michigan
When a schoolyard bully demands your lunch money, if you give it to him, he will probably ask again tomorrow.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Looking forward to discussing research on "merit vs privilege" with the folks at @umichstonecid.bsky.social tomorrow!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Respect, Sparty. "... Michigan State will never abandon our core values...Michigan State operates within all state and federal laws prohibiting race-based discrimination and preferences..." president.msu.edu/communicatio...
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Spartan Community Letter: Serving the common good | Michigan State University
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Submissions to the 2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference are due on March 1st. To be held at MIT Sloan on June 6-7, 2025.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Long overdue, my WaPo subscription is cancelled. Missing DC, the local content appealed but I won't support this self-serving clown any longer. Now to replacing Amazon Prime... www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section; Shipley to leave
In an email and social media post, Jeff Bezos outlined dramatic changes to The Washington Post’s opinions section, and announced that opinions editor David Shipley has resigned.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Insightful analysis & reminder that many oppose structural racism + support equity/fairness/justice despite resistance to labels DEI, CRT or ESG. Can't give up on identifying common ground. #EquityAnalytics
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference June 6-7, 2025 MIT Sloan School of Management How organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that align with prevailing notions of fairness & justice – of equity – and in light of evolving regulations. Submit by March 1st. tinyurl.com/2nd-EOC
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2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference
Submissions | Student Workshop | Registration (tba)
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Big thanks to Cyrus Mehri for speaking to #EquityAnalytics students at Michigan's Ross School of Business! Cyrus always inspires, sharing his #RooneyRule experiences and his advocacy for civil rights and equitable opportunities. #DEI #FritzPollard #WorkingIDEAL #MehriSkalet #EquitableOpportunity
Cyrus Mehri speaks to a classroom full of MBA students enrolled in the Equity Analytics course at Michigan's Ross School of Business.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ukrainian business leaders shift their views on #CSR from “Should we do something?” to “What could we do?” Read how *responsibility* -not necessity-has been the mother of invention in #Ukraine. #NoPaywall sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-...
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How Ukrainian Companies Are Transforming Wartime Challenges Into Lifelines
Four examples highlight the pivotal role that corporate social responsibility can play during a national crisis.
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Organization Science @orgscience.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Our new Substack post presents four forthcoming papers and includes a detailed report on the Org Science Dissertation Competition Finals by organizer Rebecca Ponce de Leon of Columbia. Congratulations to winner @susiechoe.bsky.social of Michigan and runner-up Nick Otis of Berkeley!
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The Dissertation Competition Report and Forthcoming Papers on Migration
Rebecca Ponce de Leon reports from Org Science Dissertation Competition finals while Gordon Scott brings you four forthcoming papers on immigration
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
“What sociologists do is they act as detectives of the social world.” (Raka Ray). Great video on why to study sociology at UC Berkeley. Go Bears! news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/23/s...
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Sociologists are the detectives of the social world, says UC Berkeley dean of social sciences - Berkeley News
Watch Raka Ray explain the basics of the study of sociology in just 101 seconds.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Great discussion of #DEI + #EquityAnalytics of the #NFL on this @freakonomics.bsky.social podcast! "...organizations that are giving up on equity because it’s hard to define are missing the point... " freakonomics.com/podcast/did-...
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Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2) - Freakonomics
Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2) - Freakonomics
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Great discussion of #DEI + #EquityAnalytics of the #NFL on this @Freakonomics podcast! "...organizations that are giving up on equity because it’s hard to define are missing the point... " freakonomics.com/podcast/did-the-n-…
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Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2) - Freakon...
Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2) - Freakon...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Researching how, when & for whom entrepreneurship leads to upward, downward, or lateral social mobility across space and time? Submit a proposal to our 2025 EGOS sub-theme in Athens, Greece (w/Ha Hoang of ESSEC & Olenka Kacperczyk of LBS). tinyurl.com/EGOS2025-ST17
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EGOS - SUB-THEMES: Call for Short Papers - European Group for Organizational Studies
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Researching how, when & for whom entrepreneurship leads to upward, downward, or lateral social mobility across space and time? Submit a proposal to our 2025 EGOS sub-theme in Athens, Greece (w/Ha Hoang & @OleniaOlenka )....
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Interested in DEI? Racial disparities in sports? Check out Part 1 of @Freakonomics podcast, featuring the always insightful Jeremi Duru -- who literally wrote the book on the #NFL's Rooney Rule. #EquityAnalytics freakonomics.com/podcast/did-...
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Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1) - Freakonomics
Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1) - Freakonomics
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Interested in DEI? Racial disparities in sports? Check out Part 1 of @Freakonomics podcast, featuring the always insightful @njeremiduru -- who literally wrote the book on the #NFL's Rooney Rule....
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Very excited to share the program for the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* at Michigan's Ross School of Business. Such a great group into equity-focused research on organizations! (A few spaces are available for attendees -- email me). www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Very excited to share the program for the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* @MichiganRoss. Such a great group into equity-focused research on organizations! (A few spaces are available for attendees -- email...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Thanks @idswisc.bsky.social for a great Madison visit! Sincerely appreciate engagement & thoughtful comments from all. Great to learn about the fantastic work of IDS affiliate researchers...check IDS to learn more about rigorous, evidence-based DEI research on the UW-Madison campus!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Two more days to submit a proposal for the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* on June 6-7, 2024 @MichiganRoss!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Looking forward to feedback from IDS folks @ U. of Wisconsin!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Join us at the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* at the U. of Michigan Ross School of Business on June 6-7, 2024. Submit/register below. Theme: Organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that more/less align w/notions of fairness & justice. tinyurl.com/UMRSB-EOC
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Join us at the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* at @MichiganRoss on June 6-7, 2024. Theme: Organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that more/less align w/notions of fairness & justice. Submission/registration link below. tinyurl.com/UMRSB-EOC
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Ross Events
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
What is the #EquityChallenge and how can #EquityAnalytics help leaders meet that challenge? #DEI #RossEE Learn more here... youtu.be/TlbrKGdRoaY?si=IJN1qmu2qjO…
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Wow, Rick Pitino! $2M hardly seems like a sufficient salary cap for coaches, players + all other employees... www.espn.com/mens-college-basketbal…
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Pitino says college basketball needs salary cap
St. John's coach Rick Pitino said the sport needs a salar...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Deadline extended to January 24th. Thanks to those who submitted some great proposals already!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Deadline extended to January 24th. Thanks to those who submitted some great proposals already!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Submit research to the “Enabling Educational Institutions & Equitable Opportunity” track for the SMS Special Conference "Strategies for Sustainable Human Development" in Washington, DC. June 19-21, 2024. www.strategicmanagement.net/conferences-...
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Special Conference Washington D.C. 2024 - SMS
About the event This conference is designed to explore the intersection of firm strategy, ESG, and human capital from both an academic as well as practice perspective. The timing of this conference ma...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Submit research to the “Enabling Educational Institutions & Equitable Opportunity” track for the @Strategic_Mgmt Special Conference "Strategies for Sustainable Human Development" in Washington, DC. June 19-21, 2024....
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Appreciate you Rachel Brooks (Meta) for discussing #TargetedUniversalism w/#EquityAnalytics students @MichiganRoss! Your product equity work w/Instagram nicely demonstrates how to achieve universal goals with targeted policies. belonging.berkeley.edu/targeted-uni...
Rachel Brooks, Head of Youth Products at Metaverse, discusses how targeted universalism informs product equity at Instagram with Michigan Ross MBA students in Chris Rider's Equity Analytics course
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Appreciate you @RachelABrooks for discussing #TargetedUniversalism w/#EquityAnalytics students @MichiganRoss! Your product equity work with Instagram demonstrates how to achieve universal goals with targeted policies. belonging.berkeley.edu/targeted-uni…
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
*New Paper" How does entrepreneurship facilitate social mobility? 3 status metaphors: 1) Production; 2) Preservation; 3) Consumption. ROB open access. Mechanisms & propositions. Individual & pop. levels. susiechoe.bsky.social brendamyung.bsky.social kylemccullers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ri...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
*New Paper" - How does entrepreneurship facilitate social mobility? 3 status metaphors: 1) Production; 2) Preservation; 3) Consumption. ROB open access. Mechanisms & propositions at individual & population levels. @susie__choe @MyungBrenda...
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Thank you Cyrus Mehri for discussing the #NFL's #RooneyRule with #EquityAnalytics students @MichiganRoss. You inspire us with your commitment to civil rights & DEI advocacy!
Civil rights legend and Rooney Rule pioneer Cyrus Mehri speaks to MBA students in Chris Rider's Equity Analytics course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Thank you Cyrus Mehri (@cyrus4nflpa) for discussing the #NFL's #RooneyRule with #EquityAnalytics students @MichiganRoss. You inspire us with your commitment to civil rights & DEI advocacy!
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Thank you Judge Janaya Trotter Bratton for speaking to #EquityAnalytics students Michigan/Ross. As President of Cincinnati Bar Association, she discussed increasing representation of African American attorneys, inspiring a class on “feasibility analytics” - goals + strategies for equity.
Judge Janaya Trotter Bratton speaks to EquityAnalytics students 
 at Michigan-Ross about increasing representation of African American attorneys in Cincinnati
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Thank you Judge Janaya Trotter Bratton for speaking to #EquityAnalytics students @MichiganRoss. As President of @CincinnatiEsq, she discussed increasing representation of African American attorneys, inspiring a class on “feasibility analytics” - goals + strategies for equity.
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
THANK YOU Rajkamal Vempati of Axis Bank for visiting Michigan/Ross to share lessons from GIG-A Opportunities AWA program, which attracts talent by emphasizing skills, flexibility, diversity & inclusivity, *not fit* (Raj: "Fit is anti-inclusive."). #EquityAnalytics #AxisBank #DilSeOpen #ComeAsYouAre
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
THANK YOU @RajkamalVempati for sharing lessons from @AxisBank's GIG-A Opportunities AWA program, which attracts talent by emphasizing skills, flexibility, diversity & inclusivity, *not fit* (Raj: "Fit is anti-inclusive."). #EquityAnalytics #AxisBank #DilSeOpen #ComeAsYouAre
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty in AI for Science and Society at U-M School of Information www.si.umich.edu/people/faculty-rec…
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
More important & rigorous work from @thepeoplelab.bsky.social
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Want to study entrepreneurial opportunities w/platform data? Teaching a PhD seminar on entrep research? SMJ paper w/Moshe Barach proposes 3 distinct mechanisms (1: Discovery, 2: Discernment, 3: Exploitation) + standard opp. measurement w/realized & unrealized transactions. doi.org/10.1002/smj....
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Discovery, discernment, and exploitation: Entrepreneurial mechanisms at the nexus of individual and ...
Research Summary Extending the opportunity-discovery perspective on Kirznerian entrepreneurship, we propose a general framework in which new businesses emerge from three distinct mechanisms situated.....
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Want to study entrepreneurial opportunities w/platform data? Teaching a PhD seminar on entrep. research? This @SMJ_Jour paper w/@profbarach proposes 3 distinct mechanisms (1: Discovery, 2: Discernment, 3: Exploitation) + standard opp measurement approach....
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Chris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Thank you Pam Coukos of Working IDEAL for discussing your groundbreaking #ReelEquity study of how gender segregation by role, stereotyping & sexual harassment generates gender pay inequity in Hollywood. Pam has been a fantastic supporter of #EquityAnalytics from the beginning!
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