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John-Paul Ferguson

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor; Academic Director, MBA Program

John-Paul Ferguson
Biography: 

I am an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, and Academic Director of the MBA Program, in the Desautels Faculty of Management.

I am an organizational sociologist who studies work and employment. My recent work explores the rising trend in racial employment segregation between US workplaces. I combine archival data with geospatial statistics to explore how changes to the boundary of the firm have had disparate racial impacts on work and careers over the last generation.

In another line of research, I explore how discrimination among inventors leads to discrimination in what gets invented. We have explored for example how much of the increase in medical innovation targeting women鈥檚 health is directly traceable to growing numbers of women biomedical researchers.

I am a trained bicycle mechanic. When not working, I can be found building bikes and riding them as far as my legs (and my gut) will take me.

I mentor because I was mentored, and the first rule of academia is鈥攐r should be鈥攖o pay it forward. We鈥檙e never clear enough about the unspoken rules of the university. If I can help with that, I鈥檓 doing my mentors proud.

Contact Information
Email address: 
john-paul.ferguson [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-3414
Area(s): 
Faculty mentors
Group: 
Faculty Mentors
Department: 
Desautels Faculty of Management

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