Prof. Matthew Bidwell PhD

Matthew Bidwell is a Professor in Wharton’s Management Department. His research examines new patterns in careers and employment. His work has been published in a variety of academic journals and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. It has also been recognized with Scholarly Achievement Awards from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division, the Labor and Employment Association and Administrative Science Quarterly. He has served as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and is a faculty director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative.

Matthew teaches extensively on topics of managing people to both MBAs and executives. His people analytics course on Coursera has attracted over 100,000 learners. He also teaches a module on managing people in the online "Mastering the Business of Orthodontics" course.

Matthew earned a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School, an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, and an M.Chem from Oxford. Prior to Wharton he taught at INSEAD and worked at McKinsey and Company.