Jenny Chatman
Jenny Chatman is the Bank of America Dean and 16th dean of the Haas School of Business. Previously, she held the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professorship in the Management of Organizations (MORS) Group.
In her research, teaching, and consulting work, she focuses on how organizations can leverage culture for strategic success and how diverse teams can optimize performance. Her award-winning research has shown, for example, how emphasizing innovation in the context of a strong culture increases firms’ financial success, how narcissistic leaders create organizational cultures lower in collaboration and integrity, and how norms to cooperate can cause members to blur differences among them, even if those differences are useful for group performance—suggesting that collaboration should be calibrated in diverse teams. In 2023, Chatman received the lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division for her pioneering work that has changed the field.
Chatman is the Co-founder and Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation, Editor-in-Chief for the journal Research in Organizational Behavior. She also runs the Leading Strategy Execution Through Culture executive education program. She has served in many leadership roles at Haas and UC Berkeley over the years, including Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Acting Dean, and Interim Dean from August 2024 to July 2025. Chatman earned her PhD at Berkeley Haas, and her BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley.
In March 2024, with Professor Sameer Srivastava, she launched a podcast, The Culture Kit with Jenny and Sameer, in which they apply insights from current research to help solve listeners’ workplace culture problems.
Dean Chatman is the third woman to lead the Haas School—the second oldest business school in the U.S.