Background

Chelsea Lide is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research investigates how employees form beliefs about social information, and how these beliefs shape their perceptions of and behavior toward others in the workplace. In her dissertation, Chelsea introduces the concept of second-order prejudice, defined as our beliefs about the prejudices of others, as an important yet underexplored driver of discrimination in organizations. Through this research, Chelsea examines how we develop beliefs about others’ prejudices and the processes by which these beliefs influence personnel decisions like hiring, promotion, and job assignment. Her prior work on employee perceptions of leaders has been published in the Academy of Management Journal. Chelsea received her B.A. in Psychology (with honors) from Harvard College. Before graduate school, Chelsea worked as a Program Manager at Google, where she led a global candidate experience program to support the company’s diversity hiring efforts.

Job experience

• August 2019 - present
  Ph.D. Candidate in Organizational Behavior
  Stanford University Graduate School of Business
  

  Stanford, CA, USA
• July 2016 - August 2019
  Program Manager
  Google, Inc.
  

  Austin, TX, USA

Education

• Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
  Business Administration, Organizational Behavior
  

  2019 - 2024

  Dissertation Title: "Second-Order Prejudice: How, When, and Why our Beliefs about Others' Biases Perpetuate Discrimination in Organizations"
  
  Dissertation Committee: Robb Willer (University Chair), Justin M. Berg (Primary Advisor), Francis J. Flynn, Ashley E. Martin, and S. Christian Wheeler
  
• Harvard College
  B.A. in Psychology, minor in Linguistics
  

  2012 - 2016

  Honors Thesis: "Language, Goals, and the Selective Learner: How Syntax Guides Infants' Interpretation of Goal-Directed Events"
  
  Undergraduate Advisors: Melissa Kline, Jesse Snedeker, and Susan E. Carey