Lauren Rivera is an associate professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She is an expert on workplace personnel practices, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has written extensively on hiring and promotion practices in elite professional service firms. Her award-winning book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs (Princeton University Press, 2015) investigates hiring decisions for top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Professor Rivera received the American Sociological Association's William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She previously worked at Evite.com and Monitor Deloitte.