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Elizabeth Sheprow

Elizabeth Sheprow

Doctoral Student

Doctoral Student

Elizabeth Sheprow is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School. She uses a humanistic lens to research people's emotions, relationships, and narrative dynamics at work. Through her scholarship, she aims to help people and organizations create space for, and better understand, inherently human experiences at work such as loneliness, loss, love, and awe.
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Elizabeth Sheprow is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School. She uses a humanistic lens to research people's emotions, relationships, and narrative dynamics at work. Through her scholarship, she aims to help people and organizations create space for, and better understand, inherently human experiences at work such as loneliness, loss, love, and awe. 

Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Elizabeth worked as a Research Associate for the Organizational Behavior Area at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Before that, she was a Human Resources Analyst at Citi in New York City and held internships in organizational effectiveness (Tory Burch) and marketing research (Nielsen). Elizabeth earned her BA in Psychology and Sociology from Bucknell University in 2017.

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Featured Work Publications Research Summary
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change
When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link Between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-Narratives

Elizabeth Sheprow is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School. She uses a humanistic lens to research people's emotions, relationships, and narrative dynamics at work. Through her scholarship, she aims to help people and organizations create space for, and better understand, inherently human experiences at work such as loneliness, loss, love, and awe. 

Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Elizabeth worked as a Research Associate for the Organizational Behavior Area at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Before that, she was a Human Resources Analyst at Citi in New York City and held internships in organizational effectiveness (Tory Burch) and marketing research (Nielsen). Elizabeth earned her BA in Psychology and Sociology from Bucknell University in 2017.

Featured Work
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change
When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link Between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-Narratives
Journal Articles
  • Petriglieri, Jennifer, and Elizabeth Sheprow. "Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change." Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 30, 2025.) View Details
  • Sheprow, Elizabeth, and Spencer Harrison. "When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-Narratives." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 170 (May 2022). View Details
Research Summary
Overview
Elizabeth uses a humanistic lens to research people's emotions, relationships, and narrative dynamics at work. Through her scholarship, she aims to help people and organizations create space for, and better understand, inherently human experiences at work such as loneliness, loss, love, and awe.
Keywords: Relationships; Emotions; Qualitative Methods; Culture; Psychodynamics
Area of Study
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Sociology
Areas of Interest
  • emotions
  • organizational behavior
  • relationships

Area of Study

Organizational Behavior
Sociology

Areas of Interest

emotions
organizational behavior
relationships
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