Max Kagan
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Management at Columbia Business School.
My Research
I study how political partisanship and ideology affect business performance. Currently, I'm focused on understanding partisan segregation among employees in the workplace and stakeholder reactions to corporate sociopolitical stance-taking. My research uses a variety of quantitative empirical techniques, including experiments and analysis of large-scale administrative and commercial data.
Background
I have a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to my graduate studies, I worked for several years at McKinsey & Company, where I was based in Dubai and in New York City. I also worked as a private equity investor focused on business services and financial technology as well as for the the Good Jobs Institute, a nonprofit that partners with companies in retail, elder care, and other service industries to create good jobs that enrich the lives of workers while also working towards improving business operations.