Joel M. Podolny
Dean & William S. Beinecke Professor
of Management
Yale School of Management

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Joel Podolny is the Dean of the Yale School of Management. 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. 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.

He has authored or co-authored 25 papers, and his articles have appeared in leading sociology and management journals, such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly. 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, an institutional financial services consulting and research firm.