Recently Published Research:
- Wu, Youyou, Yang Yang and Brian Uzzi. "A discipline-wide investigation of the replicability of Psychology papers over the past two decades", PNAS, 120 (6) e2208863120, January 30, 2023
- Wang, Dashun and Brian Uzzi. "Weak ties, failed tries, and success" Science, Vol 377, Issue 6612, pp. 1256-1258, September 2022
- Yang, Yang, Tanya Y. Tian, Teresa K. Woodruff, Benjamin F. Jones and Brian Uzzi. "Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, August 2022
Recent Media Hits:
New York Times: Oversight Board Criticizes Meta for Preferential Treatment (December 2022)
Forbes: Why Women Need A Professional Network (November 2022)







Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and holds professorships in Sociology and the McCormick School of Engineering. He has been on or visited the faculties of INSEAD, Chicago, Harvard, and Berkeley. His work has received 17 teaching prizes and 15 scientific research prizes worldwide in the social, physical, and computer sciences.
His research uses social network science and computational methods to explain outstanding human achievement. Media outlets featuring his research include the WSJ, Newsweek, The Economist, The New Yorker, Fortune, other media outlets and TV, and scientific journals in management, physics, ecology, sociology, medicine, economics, psychology, and computer science have covered or published his research. Grants for his research have come from the U.S. government and private agencies.