To Interview Prof. Joel M. Podolny at Yale
Joel Podolny is the Dean of the Yale School of Management. His research is in the areas of economic sociology, complex organizations, and social networks. 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. He has examined status dynamics in a variety of industries, including investment banking, semiconductors, shipping, venture capital, and the wine trade. 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 seeks to explicate how leaders infuse meanings into their organizations.
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
Education
PhD Harvard University, 1991
AM Harvard University, 1989
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1986