Homa Bahrami

Education

• PhD, Organizational Behavior, Aston University
  
• MSc, Industrial Administration, Aston University
  
• BA with Honors, Sociology & Social Administration, Hull University
  

Positions Held

• At Haas since 1986
  
• 2009 – present, Advisory Board, Center for Teaching Excellence, Haas School of Business
  
• 2006 – present, Faculty Director, Center for Executive Education, Haas School of Business
  
• 1995 – present, Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business
  
• 1986 – 1995, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
  
• 1984 – 1988, Research Associate, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
  
• 1982 – 1984, Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
  

External Service and Assignments

• Member of the Board of Directors, FormFactor, Inc.
• Director, Pedagogy, Inc.
• Advisory Director, Securitas Capital
• Member, Advisory Board: Institute for Growth & Innovation, Icarian, Kadiri, Green Border, Mercer Tech
• Advisor and executive educator for global and high tech companies in the US and Europe

Current Research and Interests

• Enterprise adaptation & flexibility
• Organizational innovation for globalization
• Impact of technology on organizational design
• Orchestrating geo-distributed teams
• Leading multi-cultural knowledge workers

Selected Papers and Publications

• Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation, Second Edition. Springer, 2010.
• “Nurturing Learning Partnerships,” in Learning Journeys Re-Visited, edited by B. Kaye et al. DavisBlack Publishing, 2009.
• “Leading Global Knowledge Workers,” in Global Talent: An Anthology of Human Capital Strategies for Today’s Borderless Enterprise_ (Revised)._ Washington, DC: Human Capital Institute, 2008.
• Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises.  Springer, 2005.
• “Leading High Tech Knowledge Workers.” PKU Business Review (Beijing University) 20, no. 3 (2006).
• “Organizing for Strategic Flexibility” in M. Goldsmith (Ed.) The Leadership Frontiers, Financial Times, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
• “Nodal Organizational Designs in Silicon Valley,” in H. Osterle & R. Winter (Eds.), Business Engineering, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
• “Flexible Recycling & High Technology Entrepreneurship” in M. Kenney (Ed.), Understanding Silicon Valley, Stanford University Press, 2000.
• “Nurturing Learning Partnerships” in Goldsmith, Kaye & Shelton (Eds.) Learning Journeys, Davies-Black Publishing, 2000.

Teaching

• International Business: Organizational Innovation for Global Companies, EWMBA 258A
• Statoil Project Executive Program
• New Manager Boot Camp for Scientists and Engineers
• Top Tech Program
• The CIO Institute
• Product Management Program