Studio Session: Yale School of Management's Marissa King on rebuilding networks and corporate cultures

<p style="padding-bottom: 20px;">How is your network surviving the pandemic? Marissa King, an author and professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, has uncovered a shocking statistic in her latest research: the size of an average person’s network shrunk by 18%—or by more than 200 people—during the pandemic. Further, she finds enormous and surprising implications when analyzing the data by gender and race. In a discussion moderated by <em>Fortune</em> Senior Editor and Connect Editorial Director Ellen McGirt, Professor King discusses her research on networks, social influence, and team dynamics, and offers her best advice on rebuilding networks and corporate cultures during the pandemic and beyond.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 20px;">Marissa King is professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, where she developed and teaches a popular course entitled “Managing Strategic Networks.” Her current research focuses on how specific behaviors can foster large-scale cultural and organizational change. She is also interested in how to leverage networks to treat opioid use disorders and address the loneliness epidemic. Her first book, <em>Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection</em>, was published in January 2021.</p> <p>Check out <a href="https://www.assessyournetwork.com/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.assessyournetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor King's assessment tool, AssessYourNetwork, here</a>.</p>