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.

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Job Market Candidates

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Nicholas Otis

Nick Otis is on the 2024-2025 job market. His Job Market Paper titled “Does Generative AI Crowd Out Social Learning? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Entrepreneurs” explores how artificial intelligence shapes entrepreneurial performance and strategy. In his research, he is especially interested in understanding how technology can enable underserved people, places, and firms.

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Saqib Mumtaz

Saqib Mumtaz is on the 2024-2025 job market. His Job Market Paper titled, “Lost in Translation? Science Communication And the Commercial Diffusion of Ideas,” examines the impact of scientific translation – communication of scientific ideas using a simple, non-technical language on how firms utilize scientific knowledge. This study is part of his broader research agenda, which focuses on the role of communication and the media in the diffusion of scientific knowledge to firms and policymakers.

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.

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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

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Analexis Glaude

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Entered program in 2022
Interests: Diversity in the workplace, creativity and innovation, and groups and teams

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Kyra Rodriguez

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Entered program in 2024
Interests: Diversity and inequality in organizations, status perceptions, leadership, and intersectionality

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.

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Saqib Mumtaz

Job Market Candidate
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Entered program in 2019
Interests: Innovation, science of science, entrepreneurship, and social networks

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Farnam Mohebi

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Entered program in 2020
Interests: Healthcare management and innovation

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Sahiba Chopra

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Entered program in 2021
Interests: Entrepreneurship, inequality, and status

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Yutao Chen

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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Computational social science, culture and cognition, and online communities and platforms

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Srikanth Janjirala

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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Innovation, Strategy & Science of Science

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Nicholas Otis

Job Market Candidate
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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation

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Xingqi (Maggie) Ye

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Entered program in 2023
Interests: Technology and work

Recent Academic Placements

PhD Year Name Initial Placement
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