Sameer B. Srivastava is the Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and serves as chair of the Management of Organizations group. He is also affiliated with UC Berkeley Sociology.
His research uses computational methods to: (1) unpack the complex interrelationships between group culture, individual cognition, and interpersonal networks; and (2) examine how they jointly relate to individual attainment and organizational performance. His work has been published in such journals as American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and Organization Science. It has been covered in such media outlets as The New York Times, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. He currently serves as Organizations Department Editor at Management Science and was previously a Senior Editor at Organization Science. Srivastava co-directs the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation and the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture Lab. At Haas, he teaches a popular MBA elective course, Power and Politics in Organizations.
Srivastava has also served as a partner at a global management consultancy (Monitor Group; now Monitor Deloitte). He holds AB, AM, MBA, and PhD degrees from Harvard University.
Education
- AB Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College
- MBA, Harvard Business School
- AM Sociology, Harvard University
- PhD Organizational Behavior/Sociology, Harvard University
Research Interests
- Organizational Sociology
- Organizational Theory
- Network Analysis
- Culture and Cognition
- Economic Sociology
- Research Design and Methods
Honors and Awards
- International Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University, 2023 –.
- Elected to Macro Organizational Behavior Society (MOBS), 2020. MOBS is a group of about 100 scholars whose interests lie in organizational theory and the behavioral aspects of strategy. Every two years, the active membership of MOBS elects new members.
- 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.
- Schwabacher Fellowship (Highest honor for Assistant Professors), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2014.
- “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, Research Paper Competition, 2015 Kellogg Computational Social Science Summit
- State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2011
- Best Paper Award in Organizational Behavior, Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London Business School, 2011
- John Harvard Scholarship, Academic Achievement of Highest Distinction, 1990-1993
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1993
- IBM Thomas J. Watson Scholarship, 1989
CV
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Contact
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
sameersriv@berkeley.edu