About

Adam M. Kleinbaum is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Strategy and Management area at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  He teaches a core MBA course on leadership and organizational behavior, an elective seminar on social networks, and an international learning expedition to Israel. He is co-founder of the Dartmouth Interdisciplinary Network Research (DINR) Group.  He previously served on the faculty at Harvard Business School as a post-doctoral fellow; he also received his doctoral and undergraduate degrees at Harvard.

Adam’s research examines the antecedents and evolution of social networks in organizations.  He has shown how formal and informal structures and processes, prior career history, and individual personality contribute to advantageous network structures.  New research explores the neuroscience of social networks.  A secondary stream of research explores how the structure of a firm’s internal communication network serves to enable coordination, innovation and, ultimately, firm performance.

His work has been published (or is forthcoming) in Nature Communications, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, Psychological Science, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Connections, and the Harvard Business Review and has been covered by many media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Huffington Post, Fast Company, and New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” column, among others, and informed "The Ultimate Secrets of Rock Star Networking." His research was among those featured in 2018's "Top Ten Insights from the Science of a Meaningful Life".

In 2018, Adam received the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution for his paper "Organizational Misfits," which was judged to have had the greatest impact of any paper published by the journal over the preceding five years.

He is an Associate Editor at Management Science and Academy of Management Annals and also serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal.