Speakers

Robert Z. Aliber

Patrick Baumann

Gary S. Becker

Marianne Bertrand

Christian Broda

Ron Burt

Agustín Carstens

Timothy Chen, '91

Christopher L. Culp

Harry L. Davis

Francisco Gil Díaz

Nicholas Epley

Eugene F. Fama, '64

Ayelet Fishbach

Michael Gibbs

Austan D. Goolsbee

Paul Hersey, '56

Chris Hsee

John Huizinga

Erik Hurst

Steven Kaplan

Anil Kashyap

James M. Kilts

Randy Kroszner

Puneet Manchanda

Scott F. Meadow

Tanya Menon

Kevin M. Murphy

Jaime Chico Pardo, '74

Raghuram G. Rajan

Haresh Sapra

James Schrager

George P. Shultz

Edward A. Snyder

Richard H. Thaler

Robert H. Topel

Li Yuanwei

Luigi Zingales

Marvin Zonis

Ron Burt

Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy Chicago Booth

Cities: Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, London

Selected Publications
Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital (Oxford University Press, 2005). "Structural Holes and Good Ideas," American Journal of Sociology (2004). "Competition, contingency, and the external structure of markets," in Advances in Strategic Management (Elsevier, 2002). "Bandwidth and Echo: Trust, Information, and Gossip in Social Networks," in Networks and Markets (Russell Sage, 2001). With R. Hogarth and C. Michaud, "The Social Capital of French and American Managers," Organization Science (2000).

Related Experience
University of California, Berkeley: Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, 1976-82. Columbia University: Associate Professor of Sociology to Professor of Sociology and Business, 1982-93; Shell Professor of Human Resources, Institute Européen d'Administration d'Affaires (INSEAD), 1998-2001; Director, Raytheon Leadership Institute, 2000-02, Vice President of Strategic Learning, Raytheon Company, 2001-03. Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Sociological Research Association.