Navya Pandit

  Field: Strategy

  Research Interests: Corporate sustainability, Strategy, Organizational goals

  (Expected) Graduation: January 2023

References

• Charles Williams charles.williams@unibocconi.it
• Anne Jacqueminet anne.jacqueminet@unibocconi.it
• Myriam Mariani myriam.mariani@unibocconi.it
• Andrea Fosfuri andrea.fosfuri@unibocconi.it 

Contact

Bocconi University, Department of Management and Technology, Via Roentgen 1, Milan 20136, Italy

Email: navya.pandit@unibocconi.it

Mobile: (+39) 371 3057546

My research focuses on understanding how companies respond to the call for environmental and social sustainability. Specifically, I investigate the strategic choices and decisions companies make as part of their response to the growing environmental and social challenges that we face as a society. More generally, I am interested in how companies design and roll-out strategies in alignment with their multiple goals. I will attend the Academy of Management Annual Conference to be held in Seattle in August 2022.

JOB MARKET PAPER

The walls have ears: Studying the impact of selective disclosure on employee evaluations

In response to simultaneous pressures for greater environmental performance and transparency, firms may selectively disclose information on their environmental footprint by highlighting their positive while downplaying their negative impact to project an overall favorable corporate image. In this work, I investigate the hidden costs associated with this strategy by examining how selective disclosure affects internal audiences, specifically employee evaluations of the firm. I utilize exogenous variation in firm incentives to selectively disclose environmental impacts provided by the swinging of traditionally democratic states in the 2016 US presidential elections as the basis of our empirical strategy. My analyses suggest that selective disclosure negatively affects a firm’s employee ratings, because employees react unfavorably to the lack of transparency associated with this strategy. I further discuss the theoretical and practical implications associated with the hidden human capital costs related to selective environmental disclosure.

PUBLICATIONS

Pandit, N., Prox, C. & Baldwin, C.Y. Studying modular design: an interview with Carliss Y. Baldwin. Journal of Organization Design (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41469-022-00119-5.

WORKING PAPERS

Pandit, N., Jacqueminet, A. & Bode, C. The walls have ears: Studying the impact of selective disclosure on employee evaluations.

Pandit, N., Williams, C. Making it to the top and staying there: Prioritizing ESG on the agenda of corporate boards.