Wayne Baker
Sociologist and business professor
Wayne Baker is a sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He wrote All You Have to Do Is Ask.
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About Wayne Baker
Wayne Baker is a sociologist from the United States who also works as an author, consultant and speaker. He holds the Robert P. Thome professorship in Business Administration at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and is Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations. He was earlier a faculty member at the University of Chicago business school. His research covers economic sociology, social capital and social networks, and the values of Americans. He is known for showing that financial markets work as social networks, and for survey work documenting the core values Americans hold. Baker holds a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern, and he went on to do postdoctoral research at Harvard. He co-founded Give and Take, Inc., which provides tools based on his book All You Have to Do Is Ask.