Author Details

Christopher I. Rider
Thomas C. Kinnear Professor; Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business
Chris Rider is the Thomas C. Kinnear Professor and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research examines the reciprocal relationship between entrepreneurship and societal inequality. He also studies racial disparity in various empirical contexts, with a focus on sports settings. His research is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, ILR Review, Industrial & Corporate Change, Sociological Science, the American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, and California Management Review. Many media outlets — including ESPN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, and the Boston Globe — featured his research. His elective course Equity Analytics has been featured in Poets & Quants and AACSB Insights.
Professor Rider is an Associate Editor for Management Science and was previously an Associate Editor for Administrative Science Quarterly and a Senior Editor for Organization Science. He teaches executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, DEI analytics, and research methods. Prior to joining the Ross faculty, he was on the faculties of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He also held strategic management positions at Cars.com, Intel Corporation, and Verizon Communications.