Faculty Profile
Ko Kuwabara
Associate Professor
Ko Kuwabara is an Associate Professor of Management at University of Kentucky. Ko’s research interests include networking, negotiations, and workplace politics. His current stream of research explores the motivational psychology of networking: who builds effective networks, what inhibits people from networking, and what can be done to promote sustained engagement in networking. He is currently designing and evaluating different interventions in order to help professionals build and manage their networks more effectively. In related research, he has examined the emergence of trust in cross-cultural interactions and online markets. His research has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology, and Psychological Science.
Professor Kuwabara earned his PhD and BA in Sociology from Cornell University. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, he was an associate professor of management at INSEAD in Singapore and the Columbia Business School where he taught courses on negotiation, social networks, and organisational change in the MBA and various executive education programs for organizations in Southeast Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North America.