Paul Ingram

Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School. He has received Columbia’s highest recognition for teaching, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and thirteen teaching awards voted by graduating students at Columbia and Cornell Universities. He was the first professor from the Columbia Business School to serve as a Provost’s Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar, a role at Columbia University for exceptional teachers who are also distinguished researchers. His PhD is from Cornell University, and he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Columbia. He has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Toronto.

His research has been published in more than one hundred articles, book chapters and books. His publications have received numerous distinctions, including the Gould Prize from the American Journal of Sociology, which is awarded annually to a paper that is “empirically rigorous, theoretically grounded, and lucidly written,” and best paper awards in the areas of Organization and Management Theory, Strategy, and Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Ingram's current research examines the intersection between culture and social networks.

He has served as President of the College of Organization Science of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He has also served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Discoveries, a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, a senior editor for Organization Science, an Associate Editor for Management Science and on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Organization.

Paul’s undergraduate degree is from Brock University where received the Governor General’s Award as the top graduating student. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Graduate Award from Brock’s Faculty of Business. He has consulted on issues of leadership, organizational design, and strategy to leading companies in the finance, health care, insurance, energy, arts, legal, education, and consumer products industries.