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Brian Uzzi

Warren E. and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment, F632
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/obir/

 

 

Education

Ph.D. Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
M.S. Organizational Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University
B.A. Business Economic, Hofstra University

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 2008
Warren E. and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2008-present
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2007-present
Co-Director, Northwestern Institution on Complexity (NICO), 2007-present
Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Chair in Leadership, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2006-present
Professor of Sociology, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2005-present
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Visiting Professor, 2004-2005
Sante Fe Institute Summer Fellow, 2002 & 2003
INSEAD, Visiting Professor of Organization Behavior, 1999-2000

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly; American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Networks
  • Complexity Theory
  • Embeddedness
  • Disfussion
  • Social Influence

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • Uzzi, Brian. Forthcoming. A Social Network’s Changing Statistical Properties and the Quality of Human Innovation. Journal of Statistical Physics A.
  • Wuchty, Stefan, Ben Jones, and Brian Uzzi. 2007. “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in the Production of Knowledge.” Science May 2007, 316:1036-1039
  • Uzzi, Brian and Shannon Dunlap. 2005. “How To Build Your Network.” Harvard Business Review, December, Vol. 83 Issue 12, p53-60
  • Guimera, Roger, Brian Uzzi, Jarrett Spiro, and Luis A. Nunes Amaral. 2005. “Team
    Assembly Mechanisms Determine Collaboration Network Structure and Team Performance.” Science, 308:697-702.
  • Uzzi, Brian and Jarrett Spiro. 2005. “Collaboration and Creativity: Big Differences from Small World Networks.” American Journal of Sociology, 111:447-504.
  • Uzzi, Brian and Ryon Lancaster. 2004. “Embeddedness and the Price of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm Market.” American Sociological Review, v69: 319-344
  • Etzkowitz, Henry, Carol Kemelgor, Brian Uzzi. 2000. Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Teaching

  • BA205x Core Leadership EWMBA
  • BA254 Macro Organizational Behavior (Ph.D. Level)

 

Honors and Awards

  • W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize for the best paper published on organization theory in the last three years, American Sociological Association, 2006
  • Administrative Science Quarterly Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award for the most influence paper published in the previous 5 years, 2003
  • W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize for the best paper published on organization theory in the last three years, American Sociological Association, 2002
  • Louis Pondy Best Paper Dissertation Award, Academy of Management Association, 1994
  • Institute for Socio-Economics Best Conference Paper Prize, 1993
  • Institute for Management Science Dissertation Proposal Award (2nd place), 1992
  • James D. Thompson Best Student Paper Prize on organizations, American Sociological Association, 1991

 

Teaching Awards and Other Honors

  • Professor of the Year, Executive MBA program, Kellogg School of Management, 2007
  • Professor of the Year, Kellogg Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Executive MBA Program, Class of 2004.
  • Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 2002
  • Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 2001
  • Professor of the Year, Executive MBA Program, Kellogg School of Management Class
    of 1999
  • Sid Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1995
  • Faculty Teaching Honor Role, KGSM, 1993-present

 

  • Grants Current:
    NIH 60 million (co-PI)
         “Medical Innovation acceleration: from Bench to Bedside.”
    NBER 10K (co-PI)
         “Team Science: Trends and Impact”
    British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, approx 1 mil (faculty associate)
         “Common properties of Physical and Social Networks”

 



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