Christopher Rider

Chris Rider is the Thomas C. Kinnear Professor and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Professor Rider's 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, American Journal of Sociology, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research in Organizational Behavior, 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. He is a former Associate Editor for Administrative Science Quarterly and Management Science and a former Senior Editor for Organization Science. 

He teaches executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, DEI analytics, and research methods. His elective course Equity Analytics was featured in Poets & Quants and AACSB Insights. He has delivered numerous executive leadership programs for organizations across the world, including the Brookings Institution, Chulalongkorn University, ExxonMobil, stc, Tata Group, Toyota, TVS, the U.S. Social Security Administration, and UPS.

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.