David Krackhardt

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Professor of Organizations, Heinz College, and Joint Appointment at Tepper School of Business

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Social network analysis of organizations. This includes how networks form and change over time, how they are perceived, how they affect the behavior and power of individuals in the organization, and how they affect the performance of organizations as a whole. Also work to develop statistical and mathematical methods that enable the study of networks in social systems.

Published Papers: 

• Sensitivity of MRQAP Tests to Collinearity and Autocorrelation Conditions
  Psychometrika, 2007.
  (with: David Dekker, T. Snijders)
  
  
• Visualizing Complexity in Networks: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees
  Connections, 2003.
  (with: Cathleen McGrath, Jim Blythe)
  
  
• Networked for change? Identifying obstetric opinion leaders and assessing their opinions on caesarean delivery
  Social Science & Medicine, 2003.
  (with: Richard Kravitz, et al)
  
  
• An Equilibrium-Correction Model for Dynamic Network Data
  Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2003.
  (with: David Dekker, Philip Franses)
  
  
• Network Conditions for Organizational Change
  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2003.
  (with: Cathleen McGrath)
  
  
• Destabilizing Networks
  Connections, 2002.
  (with: Kathleen Carley, Ju-Sun Lee)
  
  
• Structure, Culture and Simmelian Ties in Entrepreneurial Firms
  Social Networks, 2002.
  (with: M. Kilduff)
  
  
• Destabilizing Networks
  Connections 24(3), 2002; 31-34.
  (with: Kathleen Carley, Ju-Sun Lee)
  
  
• The Ties that Torture: Simmelian Tie Analysis in Organizations
  Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 1999.
  
  
• Whether Close or Far: Perceptions of Balance in Friendship Networks in Organizations
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999.
  (with: M. Kilduff)
  
  
• Organizational Viscosity and the Diffusion of Controversial Innovations
  Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1997.
  
  
• Bringing the Individual Back In: A Structural Analysis of the Internal Market for Reputation in Organizations
  Academy of Management Journal, 1994.
  (with: M. Kilduff)
  
  
• Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart
  Harvard Business Review, 1993.
  (with: J. Hanson)
  
  
• Assessing the Political Landscape: Structure, Cognition, and Power in Organizations
  Administrative Science Quarterly, 1990.
  
  
• Friendship Patterns and Culture: The Control of Organizational Diversity
  American Anthropologist, 1990.
  (with: M. Kilduff)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Three Amigos Versus Dynamic Duos: The Effect Of Simmelian-Tied Friends On Retaliation
  March, 2011.
  (with: Laurie Weingart, K. Goh, Tat Koon Koh)
  
  

Publications: 

• "Bringing the Individual Back In: A Social Network Approach to Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture in Organizations", Cambridge University Press, (2008).
  (with: M. Kilduff)
  
  

Awards:

• Elected Member, Society of Organizational Behavior - 2006
• Marvin Bower Fellowship, Harvard University - 1990-1991
• Mobil Scholar Award, Cornell University - 1988

Editorial Boards:

• Journal of Social Structure (Editor), 1999-
• Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory (Area Editor), 1995-
• Academy of Management Journal, 1993-1996
• Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983-1992

Courses Taught:

• Managing Organizations (45770)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2012, Mini 3 (Section: F)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: F)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: M)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: F)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: M)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: B)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: C)
  • 2005, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2005, Mini 1 (Section: B)

• Organizational Power and Influence (45843)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2013, Mini 3 (Section: E)

• Organizational Power and Influence (45891)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2012, Mini 3 (Section: M)
  • 2007, Mini 2 (Section: M)
  • 2006, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2006, Mini 2 (Section: B)
  • 2006, Mini 2 (Section: M)

• Research Seminar in Social Network Analysis (47889)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2013, Mini 4 (Section: A)