Associate Professor | Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values | Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab
Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership | Management of Organizations
About
Sameer B. Srivastava is the Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values 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.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Culture and Cognition
- Organizational Sociology
- Organizational Theory
- Network Analysis
- Economic Sociology
- Research Design and Methods
- Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance. Administrative Science Quarterly.
Forthcoming - Srivastava, Sameer B, Amir Goldberg, V Govind Manian and Christopher Potts. Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations. Management Science.
2018 - Doyle, Gabriel, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava, and Michael C. Frank. Alignment at Work: Using Language to Distinguish the Internalization and Self-Regulation Components of Cultural Fit in Organizations. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
2017 - Goldberg, Amir, Sameer B. Srivastava, V. Govind Manian, William Monroe, and Christopher Potts. Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness. American Sociological Review.
2016 - Liu, Christopher C., Sameer B. Srivastava, and Toby E. Stuart. An Intra-Organizational Ecology of Individual Attainment. Organization Science.
2015 - Srivastava, Sameer B. and Eliot Sherman. Agents of Change or Cogs in the Machine? Reexamining the Influence of Female Managers on the Gender Wage Gap. American Journal of Sociology.
2015 - Liu, Christopher C. and Sameer B. Srivastava. Pulling Closer and Moving Apart: Interaction, Identity, and Influence in the U.S. Senate. American Sociological Review.
2015 - Srivastava, Sameer B.. Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity. Organization Science.
2015 - Srivastava, Sameer B. and Mahzarin R. Banaji. Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations. American Sociological Review.
2011
- Dampening the Echo: Receptiveness to Opposing Views, Majority-Minority Distance, and Network Homogeneity
Reschke, Brian P., Julia A. Minson, Hannah Riley Bowles, Mathijs de Vaan, and Sameer B. Srivastava - Situated Cultural Fit: Value Congruence, Perceptual Accuracy, and the Interpersonal Transmission of Culture
Lu, Richard, Jennifer A. Chatman, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava - Expressly Different: Discursive Diversity and Team Performance
Lix, Katharina, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava, and Melissa A. Valentine - The Limits of Brief Social Psychological Interventions: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Mobasseri, Sanaz, Sameer B. Srivastava, and Laura J. Kray - Distinguishing Round from Square Pegs: Predicting Hiring Based on Pre-Hire Language Use
Stein, Sarah K., Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava
At Haas since 2012
2018 – Present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
2012 – 2018, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
1993 – 1997; 1999-2007, Partner, Monitor Group, a global management consultancy
- Editorial Boards: American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review
Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellowship, Haas School of Business
Recognition for faculty members “with a record of accomplishment and a very bright future”
2015
“Club 6” Member, Haas School of Business
Recognition for teaching excellence
2012-present
Best Paper Award, Wharton People Analytics Conference
2015 & 2016
Best Paper Award, Kellogg Computational Social Science Summit
2015
Schwabacher Fellowship, Haas School of Business
2014
State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award
2011
- Workplace Equality Improves When Women Mentor Men, Forbes, 02/18/2021
- Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Diversity, and a Giant “Bag of Words”, Stanford Business Insights, 11/20/2020
- It’s Time to Get Rid of Employee Surveys, The Wall Street, 08/01/2020
- Want women to succeed in the workplace? Help them find a mentor, Tampa Bay Times, 04/03/2020
- Three crucial strategies for effective mentoring, Associations Now, 03/19/2020
- Are you a ‘cultural fit’ for your job? Machines can now tell, BBC, 02/28/2020
- Mentoring gets a reboot as more women professionals break into top leadership: Mentoring Monday, Cleveland.com, 02/19/2020
- The New Analytics of Culture, Harvard Business Review, 02/01/2020
- Be Wary of Future of Work Predictions, Thrive Global, 10/02/2019
- Diversity Doesn’t Have To Come With Productivity Trade-Offs, Forbes, 05/13/2019
- Why people stay with the same company for decades, Financial Times, 04/29/2019
- Why mentoring matters, and how to get started, New York Times, 09/26/2018
- The high costs of staff turnover, Economist, 09/22/2018
- Three Ways to Build Resilience Against Gender Bias, INSEAD Knowledge, 04/12/2018
- Top MBAs Share Their Favorite Classes, Poets and Quants, 06/24/2017
- Power and Politics in Organizations, MBA Program
- Strategy in Competitive Markets, Berkeley Executive Education
- Boot Camp for Experienced Managers, Berkeley Executive Education
- Women’s Executive Leadership Program, Berkeley Executive Education
- Berkeley Executive Leadership Program, Berkeley Executive Education
- Research in Macro-Organizational Behavior, PhD seminar
