[2] Podolny was on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business for 11 years, as senior associate dean during the latter part of his tenure.
He also taught that the HBS only invited hugely successful alumni to speak, not those who simply managed their work-life balance.
The next year, Podolny led a major restructuring of the Yale MBA curriculum in response to the increasingly complex and cross-functional global environment in which businesses and their executives operate.
[6] Subsequently, Podolny stepped down from this position but continues as dean of Apple University and as a vice president at the firm.
He is the author of Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition and co-author (with Garth Saloner and Andrea Shepard) of the textbook Strategic Management.