Sharique Hasan’s research attempts to shed light on both the causes and consequences of informal social networks within and outside organizations. In particular, he is interested in understanding (a) how informal social networks initially form, (b) how they change and evolve, (c) why certain categories of individuals occupy beneficial positions within networks while others do not, and (d) the processes by which social network structure affects both individual careers and the organizations in which careers develop.

Sharique Hasan is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He studies how informal social networks within and outside organizations form and change, and how they affect people’s career outcomes and the organizations in which their careers develop. His ongoing research includes studies of how entering employees at a professional service firm initially form their social networks as well as how certain network structures help or hurt career outcomes such as turnover and promotion. Another ongoing research project examines how individuals from different social classes, ethnic groups, and religious communities in India form social networks amongst each other when they enter new institutional settings, and how these networks affect individual outcomes such as academic achievement and career placements.

Professor Hasan received his BS in Computer Science and Philosophy from Rutgers College in New Jersey, an MS in Public Policy and Management and his PhD in Organizational Theory and Management from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. His doctoral dissertation, "Social Networks, Stratification and Careers in Organizations" won the Herbert A. Simon Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Administrative Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University. His research has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and Social Networks.