Faculty director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative and faculty director of the Wharton CHRO Program.

Matthew holds a Ph. D. from the MIT Sloan School, an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, and an M. Chem from Oxford

Research Interests: careers, contingent work, firm boundaries, human resource management, knowledge workers

Matthew Bidwell’s research examines new patterns in work and employment, focusing on causes and effects of more short-term, market-oriented employment relationships. He has conducted detailed research on different forms of worker mobility, comparing the effects of promotion versus internal mobility for firms and workers, and the conditions under which is most likely to happen. He has also worked extensively on outsourcing and contracting.

Matthew’s 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 a Scholarly Achievement Award from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division, the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Association and the Scholarly Contribution Award from Administrative Science Quarterly.

He has also won the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award several times. He is an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and has chaired the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society.