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A recognized specialist on networks and complex systems in firms and markets, Professor Uzzi consults on building better executive networks and on managing complex systems within firms and in markets, including knowledge management systems, intellectual communities of practice, and electronic chat networks. He has worked on problems of innovation and change in patenting, science, consumer products, and art. Brian has received ten teaching awards and the media frequently covers his research and research presentations. Brian speaks the topics of leadership, networks, persuasion, change, and social media.

Brian has received nine teaching awards for his outstanding teaching and executive development. These include the Executive Master's Teacher of the Year Award (4 times), the Sid Levy Teaching Award, Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award (3 times), and the MBA Alumni Professor of the Year Award.

In his executive teaching seminars and large and small public lecture forums, Brian speaks the topics of leadership with a focus creating and developing networks that enhance executive creativity, R&D innovation, and the implementation of new products and ideas.  His other work focuses on making high risk decisions under conditions of incomplete information, changing competitive decision making in teams to collaborative decision making, leadership in political environments, organizational culture development, and the diffusion of innovations, especially in long tail distributions. 

Recent Programs:

Leading High Impact Teams
Fundacao Dom Cabral Brazil
Baker and Mckensie
Young President's Organization
IRI Industrial Relation Institute
Societe Generale
Hearst Media Worldwide
Abbott Labs
Maddock Douglas
UNITE
Deloitte
Pepsico
World Bank
Thomson Reuters
First Republic Bank
Daimler Benz
Association for Corporate Growth          
Frito-Lay
Takada Pharmaceuticals  

Duff and Phelps
FBI
HSBC
BP
Credit Suisse
La Salle Bank
ANBAMBRO
YMCA
P&G
Society of Women Engineers
Pokerstars
Johnson & Johnson
William Blair Associates
Family Office Exchange
Martin Hughes
Motorola
Oak Hill Partners
Colgate
Microsoft

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For more information, contact Professor Uzzi.

 
  Kellogg School of Management
Management and Organizations Department
Room 355 Leverone Hall
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2011
  Phone: 847.491.8072
Fax: 847.491.8896

uzzi@northwestern.edu
 
Northwestern University Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Kellogg School of Management