Summer R. Jackson

Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who studies issues of identity, inequality, and diversity at work. She has worked with numerous fast-growth technology companies on their DEI initiatives to uncover policies and practices that support building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. Her research has been recognized with the INFORMS Best Dissertation Award, as the runner up for the Administrative Science Quarterly Dissertation Award, and has appeared in scholarly and news outlets such as Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, MIT News and Harvard Business Review. She is on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science.

Professor Jackson is a graduate of Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was recognized as a Presidential Fellow and Graduate Woman of Excellence. Prior to graduate school, she worked for the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, where her service was recognized with a Meritorious Honor Award and the Fleet Seminar Fellowship at the Naval War College.

Professor Jackson is married to Luke Tarbi, a senior marketing executive, angel investor, and former Navy officer. They have one son and live in the Moss Hill neighborhood of Boston. Their family spends their free time hiking and skiing the White Mountains of New Hampshire.