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Brian Uzzi

Richard L. Thomas Chair in Leadership; Professor of Management and Organizations; Professor of Sociology; Co-Director - Northwestern Institution on Complexity (NICO)

Management and Organizations

B.A. Business and Psychology, Hofstra University; M.S. Organizational Psychology and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University; and M.A. and Ph.D. Sociology, The State University of New York at Stony Brook

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Assistant Professor of Management and Sociology, 1993-1995; Associate Professor of Management and Sociology, 1995 to 2004; Professor of Management and Sociology 2005 to present.

University of Chicago, Visiting Professor of Strategy, 2004-2005

Sante Fe Institute Summer Fellow, 2002

INSEAD, Visiting Professor of Organization Behavior, 1999-2000

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1998-1999

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Leading and Managing Organizations
Executive Management MBA Courses and Special Programs
Organizations and Environments PhD Seminar
   
Best Paper Awards
 
  • Administrative Science Quarterly Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award
  • W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize, American Sociological Associatio
  • Louis Pondy Best Paper Dissertation Award, Academy of Management Assoc.
  • Institute for Socio-Economics Best Conference Paper Prize
  • Institute for Management Science Dissertation Proposal Award (2nd place)
  • James D. Thompson Paper Prize, American Sociological Association

Teaching Awards

  • Professor of the Year, Kellogg Executive MBA program, 2007
  • Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2006
  • Professor of the Year, Kellogg Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004
  • Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2002
  • Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2001
  • Professor of the Year, Kellogg Executive MBA Program, 1999.
  • Kellogg Graduate School of Management Sid Levy Teaching Award
  • Faculty Teaching Honor Role, KSM, 1993 - present.
   
Professional Leadership
 
  • Director of the Joint Ph.D. program in Management and Organizations and Sociology
  • Representative at Large - Academy of Management
  • Organizations, Occupations, and Work Organizing Committee - American Sociological Association
  • Economic Sociology Section Council Representative - American Sociological Association
  • Organizing Committee Economic Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
  • Board Member - Social Science Research Council
  • Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the American Sociological Review
   
Research Areas
  Networks and alliances, Creativity, Financial markets, and Executive careers.
   

Representative Publications (Downloads: see my personal webpage)

 

 

“Collaboration and Creativity: Big Differences from Small World Networks.” American Journal of Sociology, 2005. (with Jarrett Spiro).

“Connecting the Dots: Raise What You Know to the Power of Who You Know. Harvard Business Review, December. 2005 (with Shannon Dunlap).

“Team Assembly Mechanisms Determine Collaboration Network Structure and Team Performance.” Science, 697-702. 2005 (with Roger Guimera, Jarrett Spiro, and Luis Amaral).

o Also appeared in Science’s News and Views section April 28th 2005..
o Also appeared in Nature’s Research Highlights section under Network Theory, Vol. 435, May 5, 2005.

“Embeddedness and the Price of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm Market.” American Sociological Review, v69: 319-344 (Lead Article). 2004. (with Ryon Lancaster).

“Relational Embeddedness and Learning.” Management Science, v 49: 383-399. 2003 (with Ryon Lancaster).

“Knowledge Spillover in Corporate Financing Networks: Embeddedness, Network Transitivity, and Trade Credit Performance.” Strategic Management Journal, v23:595-618. 2002. (with James Gillespie).

“Global Institutions and Networks: Contingent Change in the Structure of World Trade Advantage, 1965-1908.” American Behavioral Scientist, v44: 1579-1601. 2001. (with Michael Sacks and Marc Ventresca).

"Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Network Benefit Firms Seeking Capital." American Sociological Review. 1991.

• Received the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize, 2002
• Reprinted in: Frank Dobbin (ed.) Classics in Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

"Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness", American Science Quarterly. 1997.

Received the Administrative Science Quarterly Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, 2003
• Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Anne Tsui’s (ed.) ASQ Award Winning Papers On Organization Theory. Forthcoming October 2005.
• Reprinted in: Gernot Grabher and Walter Powell (eds.) Critical Studies in Economic Institutions & Networks. Edgar Elgar Books. 2004;
• Reprinted in: Steward Clegg (ed.) Central Currents in Organization Theory, Volume II. CA: Sage. 2002.;
• Reprinted in: Richard Swedberg and Mark Granovetter (eds.) The Sociology of Economic Life (2nd edition). NY: Westview Press. 2002.

"The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect", American Sociological Review . 1996.

Most cited article in the American Sociological Review in the 1990s
• Received the Louis R. Pondy Best Paper Dissertation Prize, 1994 and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Best Conference Paper Prize, 1993
• Reprinted in: Mitchel Y. Abolafia (ed.) Markets. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2004

"The Paradox of Critical Mass for Women in Science," Science, 1994. (with Etzkowitz et al.)

"Determinants of Employment Externalization: The Case of Temporary Workers and Independent Contractors", Administrative Science Quarterly. 1993. (with Alison Davis-Blake). 

Books

Athena Unbound: Social Capital and Women’s Career Advancement in the Hard Sciences. NY: Cambridge University Press .2000. (with Etzkowitz and Kemelgor.)

   
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