Jennifer Chatman
PhD
CA, USJennifer A. Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Chatman received her BA and PhD from UC Berkeley and began her career at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, before returning to UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She served as the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School.
Professor Chatman's recent research focuses on 1) how a culture emphasizing innovation and adaptation buffers firms from economic volatility, 2) how CEO's personality influences organizational culture, and 3) how diverse groups perform in high pressure situations. Professor Chatman has developed the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP) for assessing organizational culture strength and content as well as the gaps between an organization's current and desired culture.
Professor Chatman's research has been highlighted in The Atlantic, Business Week, Business 2.0, The Financial Times, Fortune, Inc., Glamour, The Jungle, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Working Mother. She was a keynote speaker for the Private Equity Women's Conference, the AACSB Dean's Conference, and the Economist Innovation Summit. She interviewed Jack Welch for the Commonwealth Club, Comcast, and NPR, and has appeared on television and radio over the years to talk about her research and consulting work. She has written articles that have appeared in numerous academic journals.
Professor Chatman has won a variety of research and teaching awards including Haas' Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, and from the Academy of Management, the Dissertation Award, and the Best Paper of the Year Award, the Scholarly Impact Award and the Cummings Scholar Award. She was honored as the Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management. She won the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Impact Award, the Accenture Award from the California Management Review and the award for the best paper of 2014 in Groups and Organization Management. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and an Editorial Board member of the Annals of the Academy of Management and the Annual Review of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Psychology.
Jennifer A. Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Chatman received her BA and PhD from UC Berkeley and began her career at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, before returning to UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She served as the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School.
Professor Chatman's recent research focuses on 1) how a culture emphasizing innovation and adaptation buffers firms from economic volatility, 2) how CEO's personality influences organizational culture, and 3) how diverse groups perform in high pressure situations. Professor Chatman has developed the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP) for assessing organizational culture strength and content as well as the gaps between an organization's current and desired culture.
Professor Chatman's research has been highlighted in The Atlantic, Business Week, Business 2.0, The Financial Times, Fortune, Inc., Glamour, The Jungle, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Working Mother. She was a keynote speaker for the Private Equity Women's Conference, the AACSB Dean's Conference, and the Economist Innovation Summit. She interviewed Jack Welch for the Commonwealth Club, Comcast, and NPR, and has appeared on television and radio over the years to talk about her research and consulting work. She has written articles that have appeared in numerous academic journals.
Professor Chatman has won a variety of research and teaching awards including Haas' Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, and from the Academy of Management, the Dissertation Award, and the Best Paper of the Year Award, the Scholarly Impact Award and the Cummings Scholar Award. She was honored as the Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management. She won the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Impact Award, the Accenture Award from the California Management Review and the award for the best paper of 2014 in Groups and Organization Management. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and an Editorial Board member of the Annals of the Academy of Management and the Annual Review of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Psychology.
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