Sameer Srivastava

Sameer B. Srivastava is the Ewald T. Grether Chair in Business Administration and Public Policy at Berkeley Haas. He is also affiliated with UC Berkeley Sociology. His research unpacks the complex interrelationships among the culture of social groups, the cognition of individuals within these groups, and the connections that people forge within and across groups. Much of his work is set in organizational contexts, where he uses computational methods to examine how culture, cognition, and networks independently and jointly relate to career outcomes. His work has been published in scholarly journals such as American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and Organization Science. It has been covered in media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. He teaches a popular MBA elective course, Power and Politics in Organizations, and co-directs the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture Lab.

Srivastava has also served as a partner at the global management consultancy Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). He holds AB, AM, MBA, and PhD degrees from Harvard University.

Education

• PhD, Organizational Behavior/Sociology, Harvard University
  
• AM, Sociology,  Harvard University
  
• MBA, Harvard Business School
  
• AB, Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College
  

Positions Held

• At Haas since July 2012
  
• 2012 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
  
• 1993 – 1997; 1999-2007, Partner, Monitor Group, a global management consultancy
  

Current Research and Interests

• Organizational Sociology
• Organizational Theory
• Network Analysis
• Culture and Cognition
• Economic Sociology
• Research Design and Methods

Selected Papers and Publications

Teaching

• Power and Politics in Organizations (MBA Elective Course), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Strategy in Competitive Markets (Executive Education Program), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Boot Camp for Experienced Managers (Executive Education Program), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Women’s Executive Leadership Program (Executive Education Program), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Berkeley Executive Leadership Program (Executive Education Program), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• PhD Seminar, Research in Macro-Organizational Behavior

Honors and Awards

• Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellowship (Recognition for faculty members “with a record of accomplishment and a very bright future”), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
• “Club 6” (Recognition for teaching excellence), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2012-present.
• Best Paper Award, Research Paper Competition, 2016 Wharton People Analytics Conference.
• Best Paper Award, Research Paper Competition, 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference.
• Best Paper Award, 2015 Kellogg Computational Social Science Summit.
• Schwabacher Fellowship (Highest honor for Assistant Professors), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2014.
• State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2011.