Pamela Haunschild

Biography

Pamela R. Haunschild holds the Jack R. Crosby Regents Chair in Business Emeritus at the McCombs School of Business and is also one of IC2’s Cynthia Hendrick Kozmetsky Fellows. Professor Haunschild earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Theory in 1992 from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Before coming to The University of Texas at Austin, she was employed at Stanford University. Her research involves studying organizational (and inter-organizational) learning processes, especially how and under what circumstances organizations learn from their “errors” or “mistakes.” Professor Haunschild also is interested in issues related to networks and corporate governance as well as how governance decisions are affected by network information and influence. Her publications appear in top-tier management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science. Her awards include a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Corporate Governance, Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management, Louis R. Pondy Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation and the McCombs Research Excellence Award. She has served on several editorial boards as well as an ad hoc reviewer for several premier management journals. In 2005-06 she was the chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management.

Professional Awards

• McCombs Research Excellence Grant for “Consequences of Prestige and Performance in the Market for Directors”2007
• Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Residency at Bellagio Study Center2006
• Herbert E. Kelleher/MCorp Regents Professorship2006
• IC2 Cynthia Hendrick Kozmetsky Endowed Fellowship2005
• Red McCombs Award for Research Excellence2005
• Best Paper Award, OMT Division, Academy of Management2003
• Spurgeon Bell Centennial Fellowship2003
• Fulbright Viterbo Distinguished Chair in Corporate Governance2002
• Pondy Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Academy of Management1992

Teaching Awards

• Selected as one of the “Most Influential Professors” by the McCombs MBA Class of 2004