Brian Uzzi Biography

On leadership, social networks, and new media, Brian Uzzi is a worldwide known scientist, teacher, consultant, and speaker. He is the Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He also has professorships in sociology and the McCormick School of Engineering, as well as co-directing NICO, the Northwestern University Institute on Complex Systems. His widely referenced and award-winning study investigates the relationship between social networks and exceptional human accomplishment. His study has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, on television, and in the New Yorker Magazine. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Behavioral Scientist, American Journal of Sociology, Harvard Business Review, Science, The Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature, among other journals. Professor Uzzi has received ten teaching awards and a number of honors for academic contributions. He has been on the faculties of Harvard University, INSEAD, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the Warren E. and Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership. Brian advises and speaks at large corporations, enterprises, organizations, and non-profits around the world, including the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Baker and McKenzie, Deloitte, Pepsico, Kraft, Abbott Labs, UNITE, Total Quality Schools, Hearst Media, ABN AMBRO, Credit Suisse, P&G, McKinsey, the World Bank, FBI, Intel, Thomson Reuters, and other corporations, firms, associations, and non-profit Brian labored as a management consultant, carpenter, and musician before joining Kellogg. He holds a master's degree in social psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a doctorate in sociology from Stony Brook State University.

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