About Our Program
The Haas Management of Organizations PhD program equips doctoral students with the tools to apply foundational social science theories and research methodologies to the study of organizations, their members, and the surrounding environment. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in academic research, with graduates typically securing positions at universities and research institutions worldwide.
For more details about the Management of Organizations PhD program visit the Academics page.
Job Market Candidates
Current PhD Students
Micro-OB PhD Students
Micro-track PhD students are trained to become academics active in areas including judgment and decision-making, status and power, organizational culture, gender, ethics, diversity, the self, negotiations, and nonverbal interactions. Research by faculty and students in the micro track is primarily empirical, often using field and laboratory studies and experiments to collect and analyze data.
Sophia Li
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Entered program in 2021
Interests: Social judgment, communication, and status, judgment, and decision making
Sylvia Chin
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Entered program in 2022
Interests: Diversity, equity, and inclusion, policy-making, emotion, and hierarchies
Analexis Glaude
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Entered program in 2022
Interests: Diversity in the workplace, creativity and innovation, and groups and teams
Ana Herndon
Interests: Workplace norms, authenticity, and intergroup relations
Kyra Rodriguez
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Entered program in 2024
Interests: Diversity and inequality in organizations, status perceptions, leadership, and intersectionality
Nick Zambrotta
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Entered program in 2025
Interests: Authenticity and identity expression, social perception, and stigma and bias.
Macro PhD Students
Macro-track PhD students are trained to become academics active in areas including social networks, innovation, economic sociology, organizational culture, and entrepreneurship. Research by faculty and students in the macro track has a strong quantitative focus and uses computational social science to make inferences based on large-scale data.
Farnam Mohebi
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Entered program in 2020
Interests: Healthcare management and innovation
Sahiba Chopra
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Entered program in 2021
Interests: Entrepreneurship, inequality, and status
Yutao Chen
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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Computational social science, culture and cognition, and online communities and platforms
Srikanth Janjirala
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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Innovation, Strategy & Science of Science
Xingqi (Maggie) Ye
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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Technology and work
Gaveal Fan
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Entered program in 2025
Interests: Computational social science, social network analysis, AI and society, and science and innovation
Irina Liu
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Entered program in 2025
Interests: Inclusive innovation and research productivity
Xinyuan (Oranda) Hou
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Entered program in 2025
Interests: Non-market strategy, innovation, and market for ideas
Sarayu Anshuman
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Entered program in 2025
Interests: Social Networks, Computational Social Science
Recent Academic Placements
| PhD Year | Name | Initial Placement |
| 2025 | Saqib Mumtaz | Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech University, Scheller College of Business |
| 2025 | Nick Otis | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management |
| 2024 | Charlotte Townsend | Post-Doc, Cornell University |
| 2024 | Andrew Choi | Post-Doc, London Business School |
| 2024 | Sandy Campbell | Post-Doc, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2024 | Matteo Tranchero | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School |
| 2023 | Derek Brown | Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Columbia Business School |
| 2023 | Sonya Mishra | Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business |
| 2021 | Gauri Subramani | Assistant Professor, Lehigh University |
| 2020 | Michael Rosenblum | Post-Doc, New York University, Stern School of Business |
| 2018 | Sanaz Mobasseri | Assistant Professor, Boston University |
| 2017 | Weiyi Ng | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
| 2016 | John Angus D. Hildreth | Assistant Professor, Cornell University, The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management |
| 2016 | Jennifer Logg | Assistant Professor, Georgetown University |
| 2016 | Eliot Sherman | Assistant Professor, London Business School |
| 2015 | Brian Reschke | Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University |
| 2015 | Alexander Van Zant | Assistant Professor, Rutgers Business School |