David Krackhardt is Professor of Organizations at the Heinz College, the Tepper School of Business

Tepper School of Business

The Tepper School of Business is a private business school located on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The school consistently ranks highly among the top business schools in the U.S., as well as in a wide range of specializations, such as finance,...

, and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences

Social and Decision Sciences

Social and Decision Sciences, informally known as SDS, is an interdisciplinary academic department within the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University headquartered in Porter Hall in Pittsburgh, PA and led by Department Head John H...

 at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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 in the United States. He is notable for being the author of KrackPlot, a network visualization software designed for social network analysis which is widely used in academic research.

Krackhardt received a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Belin, Massachusetts in 1950. He currently lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Sharon, and three children, Stephen, Katherine, and Daniel.

Publications

• "KrackPlot: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words." Connections, 16 (1&2): 37-47.
• "Informal Networks and Organizational Crises: An Experimental Simulation." Social Psychology Quarterly, 51: 123-140.
• Interpersonal Networks in Organizations: Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), 2008. ISBN 052186660X