Lecturer | Director, High Impact Teams & Research | Team@Haas
Management of Organizations
Leading Expert on High Impact Teaming
About
Brandi Pearce is on the faculty in Management of Organizations and the Faculty Director of Teams@Haas. Prior to earning her doctorate, Pearce worked in the Silicon Valley leading alliance teams for Oracle Corporation, one of the world’s most innovative global organizations in the management of strategic partnerships. She deeply values the intersection between evidence-based management and organizational practice. These principals spill over into her research where she works directly with teams, individual contributors, and executives in Global Fortune 500 organizations all over the world to explore how collaborative dynamics drive creativity, employee engagement, and innovation. It is her hope that students will leave Haas feeling inspired and confident about their potential to lead teams and create value for their future organizations. Colleagues and students describe Pearce as “collaborative and approachable” as well as “curious and passionate.” She aims to be a student always and admires those who can lead with and through others.
Expertise and Research Interests
- High Impact Teaming, Collaborative Dynamics in Complex Global Organizations
- Place Identity Formation, Contemporary Office Designs & Collaboration
- Transfer of Collaborative Innovation Practices in Global Organizations
- Pearce, B.M. and Hinds, P. (2018) How to Make Sure People Won’t Hate Your New Open Office Plan. Harvard Business Review.
- Pearce, B.M. (2017) At the Interface of the Firm: Alliance Context & Boundary Spanner Collaborative Dynamics, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA
- Värlander, S., Hinds, P., Thomason, B., Pearce, B.M., Altman, H. (2015) Enacting a Constellation of Logics: How Transferred Practices Are Recontextualized in a Global Organization Academy of Management Discoveries.
- Pearce, B.M., Hinds, P., Altman, H. Thomason, B., Varlander, S., Li, K. (2016). What Happened to My Office? The Role of Place Identity in Collaborative Work. Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA
- Hinds, P., Pearce, B.M., Mortensen M., Altman, H. Mell, J., Van der Kamp, M. (2016). Methodological Challenges in the Empirical Investigation of Amorphous Teams. INGRoup Helsinki, Finland.
- Thomason, B., Hinds, P. Pearce, B.M., Varlander, S. (2014). Understanding the Dynamics of Global Teams. Presented at Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA. Nominated Emerald Best International Symposium.
- Espinosa, J.A., Cummings, J.N., Wilson, J.M., Pearce, B.M. (2003). Team Boundary Issues Across Multiple Global Firms. Journal of Management Information Systems, 19, 159-192.
At Haas since 2012 2013-present, Lecturer, Management of Organizations 2012- present, Director of High Impact Teaming & Research (Teams@Haas)
- Ad hoc reviewer for Organization Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, California Management Review, and Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, & Practice
- AOM Program Chair, 2017, Information Sharing and Leadership in Multiteam and Networked Organizations, 2017.
- Memberships: Academy of Management and INGroup
- Nominee – Emerald Best International Symposium Award Academy of Management, 2014
- Nominee – Emerald Best International Symposium Award Academy of Management, 2013
- Nominee – Best Paper Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, 2002
- National Science Foundation Fellowship. Grant # DGE-9354995, “Groups, Technology and Organizational Effectiveness.”
- Alpha Lambda Delta – National Scholastic Honor Society, top 20% of freshman class
- Leading High Impact Teams (UGBA150 & MBA250)
- Teams@Haas (FTMBA, EWMBA, EMBA)
- Berkeley Changemaker (UGBAC12)