Matthew Bidwell is the Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor in Wharton’s Management Department and the Faculty Director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative. His research examines new patterns in careers and employment. His work has been published in a variety of academic journals and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. It has also been recognized with a Scholarly Achievement Award from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division, the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Association and the Scholarly Contribution Award from Administrative Science Quarterly. He has served as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and as faculty director of the Wharton CHRO Program.
Matthew earned a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School, an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, and an M.Chem from Oxford. Prior to Wharton he taught at INSEAD and worked at McKinsey and Company.
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