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Keynote Speakers



Prof. Mitchell Langbert

  • Associate Professor of Business
  • Brooklyn College
  • City University of New York

Date: 9th December,2020
Time:9:00am - 10:00am IST

Mitchell Langbert is Associate Professor of Business at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He holds a Ph.D. from the Columbia Business School and an MBA from UCLA. He had previously worked for Johnson and Johnson and several other US corporations before pursuing a Ph.D. Professor Langbert's research has focused on human resource management and has appeared in Journal of Labor Research, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management History, and Journal of Economic Issues. About five years ago he became interested politicization of and objectivity in research. In 2016 he published "The Left Orientation of Industrial Relations" following a 2015 debate that he chaired at the Labor and Employment Relations Association and (with Daniel B. Klein of George Mason University and Anthony Quain) "Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law and Psychology," both in Econ Journal Watch. Earlier this year he published "Republicans Need Not Apply: An Investigation of the American Economic Association Using Voter Registration and Political Contributions." In the same journal and (with Sean Stephens, now of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), a work in process on the blog of the National Association of Scholars, "Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges." In 2018 his analysis of liberal arts colleges, "Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts Colleges" appeared in Academic Questions.