Recently Published Research:
- Huilian Sophie Qiu, Peng, Hao, Henrik Barslund Fosse, Teresa Woodruff, and Brian Uzzi “Use of Promotional Language in Grant Applications and Grant Success”. Journal of the American Medical Association, December 11, 2024.
- Li, Qinghua, Brayden King, Brian Uzzi "Quantifying social media predictors of violence during the 6 January US Capitol insurrection using Granger causality". Journal of the Royal Society Interface, November 2024
Recent Media Hits:
The Wall Street Journal: The Generosity Power Move That Can Boost Your Career (October 2024)
Kellogg Insight: Unique. Revolutionary. Fundamental. A Little Hype Can Help Scientists Win Grants (June 2024)
Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), the Ryan Institute on Complexity, and holds professorships in Sociology and at the McCormick School of Engineering. He has been on or visited the faculties of INSEAD, Chicago, Harvard, and Berkeley. His work has received 17 teaching prizes and 15 scientific research prizes worldwide in the social, physical, and computer sciences.
His research uses social network science and computational methods to explain outstanding human achievement. Media outlets featuring his research include the WSJ, Newsweek, The Economist, The New Yorker, Fortune, other media outlets and TV, and scientific journals in management, physics, ecology, sociology, medicine, economics, psychology, and computer science have covered or published his research. Grants for his research have come from the U.S. government and private agencies.