Yale School of Management - Faculty

Dean & William S. Beinecke Professor of Management

Joel Podolny is the dean of the Yale School of Management. Over the last two years, he has been working with Yale SOM faculty, staff, students, and alumni to pioneer an integrated MBA curriculum that sets a new, higher standard for management education. Prior to Yale SOM, Podolny was professor and director of research at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He also spent 11 years on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he also served as senior associate dean of academic affairs and was head of the school's organizational behavior group.

His articles have appeared in leading sociology and management journals, such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly. The research for which he is best known is that in which he brings the sociological conception of status to the study of market competition. In addition to his work on status, he has conducted research on the role of social networks in mobility and information transfer within organizations. His current research explores how leaders infuse meanings into their organizations His major publications include Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition, 2005 and the textbook Strategic Management, 2001 (with G. Saloner and A. Shepard).

He is a member of the Board of Advisors of Greenwich Associates, the institutional financial services consulting and research firm; and a member of the International Board of Overseers of the American University of Beirut School of Business.

Achievements and Awards
Invited to Deliver Clarendon Lectures in Management, Said Business School, Oxford University, 2004
Most Influential Article or Chapter, Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management, 1999
Business School Trust Faculty Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1999
Grant (with Michael Morris), Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council, 1994
Best Article Award, International Association of Conflict Management, 1994
Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1993
Grant (with Jim Baron), Women's Education Foundation, Santa Clara County, 1992

Editorships
Member of Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 2005
Associate Editor, Industrial and Corporate Change, 1999-present
Member of Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999-2000
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1992-1994

Selected Books
Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition, Princeton University Press, 2005

Strategic Management (with G. Saloner and A. Shepard), John Wiley, 2001

Selected Articles
"Culture and Coworker Relations: Distinctive Patterns of Interaction among American, Chinese, German, and Spanish Employees of a Global Retail Bank" (with B.N Sullivan, and M. Morris), Organizational Science, forthcoming

"Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership" (with R. Khurana and M. Hill-Popper), Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 26, 2005

"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Symbols: A Sociologist's View of the Economic Pursuit of Truth," American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 2, 169-174, May 2003

"Love or Money?: The Effects of Owner Motivation in the California Wine Industry" (with F. Scott Morton), Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 50, No. 4, 431-456, December 2002

"Networks As the Pipes and Prisms of the Market," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 107, No. 1, 33-60, July 2001

"Resources and Relationships: Social Networks and Mobility in the Workplace" (with J.N. Baron), American Sociological Review, Vol. 62, No. 5, 673-693, October 1997

"Networks, Knowledge, and Niches: Competition In the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1984-1991" (with T.E. Stuart and M.T. Hannan), American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102, No. 3, 659-689, November 1996

"Market Uncertainty and the Social Character of Economic Exchange," Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, 458-483, September 1994

"A Status-Based Model of Market Competition," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 4, 829-872, January 1993

Education
PhD Harvard University, 1991
AM Harvard University, 1989
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1986