Recently Published Research:
- Yang, Yang, Nitesh Chawla, and Brian Uzzi. "A network’s gender composition and communication pattern predict women’s leadership success". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, January 2019.
- Ma, Yifang, Diego F.M. Oliveira, Teresa K. Woodruff, Brian Uzzi. "Women who win prizes get less money and prestige". Nature, January 2019. (PDF VERSION)
Recent Media Hits:
Kellogg Insight: Who Gets Blamed When a Group Project Goes Wrong? (February 2019)
Chicago Tribune: Climbing the corporate ladder: Women need a female inner circle, men benefit from networking with everyone, study finds (January 2019)






Brian Uzzi is a globally recognized scientist, teacher, consultant and speaker on leadership, social networks, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs NICO, the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, is the faculty director of the Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative (KACI), and holds professorships in Sociology at the Weinberg College of Arts of Sciences and in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering. He has lectured and advised companies and governments around the world and has been on or visited the faculties of INSEAD, University of Chicago, University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University. He has been awarded 13 teaching prizes and 12 scientific research prizes worldwide.