Madeline Kneeland

Madeline King Kneeland is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Babson College. She earned a PhD in Management from New York University's Stern School of Business and a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Art History from Williams College. Prior to joining Babson, Madeline was on the faculty at Cornell University's Johnson College of Business in the Nolan School of Hotel Administration.

Professor Kneeland has taught Strategy and Management courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level and won the Ted Teng Impactful Teaching Award in 2020 from The Nolan School of Hotel Administration.

Professor Kneeland's research spans strategy and organizational theory and answers questions related to social networks, network dynamics, and innovation. Her dissertation examined how intra-firm network dynamics impact individual level performance in the context of a law firm. Another stream of her research explores how individuals and firms are able to create unusual and technologically distant innovation. Professor Kneeland's research has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, American Business Law Journal, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. Madeline was the 2019 Winner of the Harold W. McDowell Prize for scholarship from NYU Stern School of Business and was a Strategic Management Society SRF Dissertation Fellow. Madeline is on the Editorial Review Board for Organization Science.