Daniel Joseph (Dan) Brass (born ca 1948) is an American organizational theorist and Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Kentucky, and Director of its LINKS Center for Social Network.
Brass studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where in 1969 he received his BA in Psychology, in 1975 his MA in Labor and Industrial Relations, and in 1979 his PhD in Business Administration and Management.
Brass started his academic career as Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University in 1979.
In 2000, he moved to the University of Kentucky, where he was appointed J. Henning Hilliard Professor of Innovation Management.
[1] His research interests "focus on the antecedents and consequences of social networks in organizations".