Noah Askin

is an Associate Professor of Organization and Management at UC-Irvine in the Paul Merage School of Business. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, where he directed and taught Executive Education programmes in addition to teaching the organisational design and leadership core course in the MBA programme. 

A computational social scientist and sociologist by training, Noah conducts research on social and cultural networks, the causes and consequences of creativity (particularly in the creative industries), the production and consumption of culture, and the dynamics of organisational and individual status. 

His work, which has garnered him recognition on the Thinkers 50 Radar list, has appeared in top tier management and sociology journals, as well as computational social science publications. He has been an interview guest on the BBC (radio and television) and Salon.com, and his research has been covered in The Economist, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Business Insider, Quartz.com, The Times of London, and music industry blogs. He has done a TEDx talk on what makes popular songs popular.

Prior to becoming a business school academic, Noah had a number of roles in the business and not-for-profit sectors. He was a management consultant for the Monitor Group, working in its strategy practice and its Executive Development group. This was followed by several years as an early member of a start-up in the educational services space. Noah received a joint PhD from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and its Sociology department. He also has an MA in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Booth, as well as an AB in Psychology from Harvard University.