David Krackhardt is Professor of Organizations at Heinz College and the Tepper School of Business, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences (Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences) and the Machine Learning Department (School of Computer Science), all at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States,[1] and he also serves a Fellow of CEDEP, the European Centre for Executive Education, in France.
Krackhardt received a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine.
He moved to Harvard Business School as a Marvin Bower Fellow for a year, before joining Heinz College in 1991.
[3][4] He created the E-I index, which describes the extent to which an organization is either silo-like or integrated in its informal structure and demonstrated how these structures affect an organization’s ability to deal with crises.
Methodologically, his major contribution has been the development of the Multiple Regression Quadratic Assignment Procedure (MRQAP), a non-parametric approach to statistical analysis of network data.