Joel M. Podolny

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Joel M. Podolny
Education
St. Xavier High School
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationAcademic
EmployerApple University

Joel Marc Podolny is an American sociologist. Formerly the dean of the Yale School of Management, he is currently an executive at Apple Inc., where he is the dean of Apple University (the in-house corporate training center for Apple employees) and a vice president of the firm. Previously, he was vice president for human resources.

Education

Podolny is a 1982 graduate of

St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati.[1] He earned his B.A. (magna cum laude), M.A. and PhD degrees from Harvard University.[2]

Career

Podolny was on the faculty of the

business strategy, organizational behavior and global management. He also taught that the HBS only invited hugely successful alumni to speak, not those who simply managed their work-life balance.[3]

Podolny arrived at the Yale School of Management in 2005. The next year, Podolny led a major restructuring of the Yale MBA curriculum in response to the increasingly complex and cross-functional global environment in which businesses and their executives operate.[4]

On November 1, 2008, Podolny stepped down as dean to be replaced by Sharon Oster and, in early 2009, assumed the position of senior vice president of human resources,[5] and dean of Apple Inc.'s new venture, Apple University.[6] Subsequently, Podolny stepped down from this position but continues as dean of Apple University and as a vice president at the firm.[7]

Research

Podolny has developed a

social networks
in mobility and information transfer within organizations. He is the author of Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition and co-author (with Garth Saloner and Andrea Shepard) of the textbook Strategic Management.

References

  1. ^ "Keeper of the Apple Culture". St. Xavier High School. November 6, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.[failed verification]
  2. ^ "Joel Podolny". LinkedIn. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  3. OCLC 559782256
    .
  4. ^ Leonhardt, David (May–June 2007). "Revamping the MBA". Yale Alumni Magazine. Yale Alumni Publications. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  5. ^ "Steve Jobs' virtual DNA to be fostered in Apple University". Los Angeles Times. October 6, 2011. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011.
  6. ^ "School of Management Dean Joel Podolny Resigns". Yale Daily News. Yale Daily News Publishing Company. October 22, 2008. Archived from the original on February 10, 2013 – via archive.today.
  7. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved August 13, 2014.

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