Faculty & Speakers
Conservation Land Management Program
Eric Biber is a professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, and is a specialist in conservation biology, land-use planning and public lands law. His principal research interests include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law and property. Prior to joining Boalt Hall in 2006, he worked in the Denver office of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit organization specializing in public lands and other environmental cases. Biber taught public lands law as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in fall 2005. He is a member of both the Colorado and California bars.
Biber brings technical and legal scholarship to the field of environmental law. He earned a master's of environmental science with a focus in conservation biology from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He was a member of the Yale Environmental Law Association and the winner of the 2001 Margaret Gruter Prize for the best paper on law and ethology, biology and related behavioral sciences. He served on the Case Note Committee of the Yale Law Journal.
Following law school, Biber clerked for Judge Carlos Lucero of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver and Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Biber's recent journal articles include "The Price of Admission: Causes, Effects, and Patterns of Conditions Imposed on States Entering the Union" in The American Journal of Legal History (2004), "Habitat Analysis of a Rare Dragonfly in Rhode Island" in Northeastern Naturalist (2002), and "The Application of the Endangered Species Act to the Protection of Freshwater Mussels: A Case Study" in Environmental Law (2002).
Jennifer Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. During the 2001-02 year she was the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Haas School faculty in 1993 she was on the faculty of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University from 1987 to 1993. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Chatman's research, executive development, and consulting work focus on the business advantages of leveraging organizational culture and leading change. She has worked with a variety of organizations including Advantage Sales & Marketing, ALZA, Arthur Andersen, Case Inc., California Public Utilities Commission, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, The Coca-Cola Company, Fannie Mae, Fireman's Fund, Franklin Templeton, Freddie Mac, Gallo Winery, Genentech, Guidant, The Institute for Management Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, The Medical Group Management Association, Marimba, New York Life, Pacific Gas and Electric, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, Sandia Labs, San Francisco Academy, The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG/Kaiser-Permanente), U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Treasury, and the University of California's Business and Administrative Services Division. She teaches a variety of executive and MBA courses focusing on leveraging culture, leadership, effective decision-making and conflict resolution. She regularly teaches in executive education programs at the University of California, Columbia University, Stanford University, Northwestern University's Allen Center, and the Institute for Management Studies.
Professor Chatman's research has been highlighted in Business Week, Fortune, Inc., The Jungle, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and Working Mother. She has written articles that have been published in various academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology. She is a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and California Management Review. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Behavior, the Society for Organizational Behavior, and has served as an elected officer in the Academy of Management. She is a Director on the Board of Simpson Manufacturing, and serves as an advisory board member to BrassRing, Thinkshed Inc., the Trium Group, Unicru, and Ashesi University in Ghana, Africa.
Professor Chatman won the Outstanding Paper based on a Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management in 1989, and the Best Paper of the Year Award from the Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division in 1991. She was honored as the 1993 Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management, won the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Impact Award in 1997, was named the L.L. Cummings Scholar by the Academy of Management in 1998, and won the Accenture Award for the Best Paper of the Year in the California Management Review in 2004. She has also been nominated for numerous teaching awards at Haas and Kellogg.
Keith Gilles is the Dean of the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley.
Alex Glazer is Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley. His research has ranged from studies on the basic mechanisms of photosynthesis and on genomics to the development of new techniques and tools for cell analyses and DNA sequencing. Since January 1998, he has been the Director of the University wide University of California Natural Reserve System. With thirty-six reserves, this is the largest such University-operated system in the world. He is on the Board of the Natural Areas Association, the sole professional organization that supports the managers of a broad range of protected public lands ranging from State and Federal protected areas to urban parks and that through the Natural Areas Journal, annual conferences, and workshops, shares advances in scientific knowledge and in management-related issues.
Teck-Hua Ho is the William Halford, Jr. Family Professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the chair of the marketing faculty group and director of the Asia Business Center there. From 2004-2006, Teck also served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and is currently an elected member of the Policy and Planning Committee at the Haas School of Business.
Teck's professional leadership includes roles as Departmental Editor of Management Science, Area Editor of Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. Publishing extensively in leading marketing and economics journals, Teck is one of the most cited authors in the marketing field. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, and Quarterly Journal of Economics and he has been funded by the National Science Foundation for his innovative research in experimental and behavioral economics from 1995 to the present. Teck’s research papers received honorable mentions for the prestigious John D.C. Little Best Paper Award in 2006 and the Paul Green Best Paper Award in 2005.
Teck earned his Ph.D from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and became a tenured professor there in 1999. In 2002, he relocated to UC Berkeley, where he has been teaching a highly popular MBA elective called “Strategic Pricing” and is the faculty director of several executive education programs in marketing and advanced management. He won the Best Teacher of the Year Award three years in a row from 2004 to 2006. His recent consulting clients include Autodesk, Boston Scientific, Campbell’s, eBay, HP, QuickLogic, and Security Network of America.
Richard L. Knight is an author and a professor of wildlife conservation at Colorado State University. His research deals with the ecological effects from the conversion of ranch land to rural housing developments. He sits on the board of governors for The Center of the American West, The Natural Resources Law Center and the Society for Conservation Biology. He has coedited: "A New Century for Natural Resources Management," "Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation;" "The Essential Aldo Leopold," "Stewardship Across Boundaries" and others.
Robin Marsh is the Academic Coordinator of the Center for Sustainable Resource Development (CSRD). She is an agricultural and development economist (Ph.D., Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1991), with 25 years of experience in international development. At UC Berkeley, Dr. Marsh helped to launch and develop the Beahrs ELP into a thriving international training and outreach program. She also co-leads with David Zilberman the Population and Environment Program at CSRD, with support from the Packard and Hewlett Foundations. In addition to population-environment linkages, Marsh works on bridging the environment and agricultural divide through support of ecoagriculture and payment for environmental services initiatives. Before coming to Berkeley in 2000, Dr. Marsh worked with the Rural Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, leading a global research program on the interactions between household livelihood strategies, food security and local institutions. Previously, Dr. Marsh was socio-economist with the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (CGIAR associate center) in Taiwan and Costa Rica. She conducted research in Asia and Central America on the economic and food security benefits of home and market gardening, and evaluated urban horticulture projects in Africa. Robin has also worked on several major issues related to California agriculture and natural resources such as water and drought management, alternative pest management strategies, organic horticulture, farm labor and NAFTA.
David Vogel holds the Solomon Lee Chair in Business Ethics at the Haas School of Business. He received his doctorate in Political Science from Princeton University and has been on the UC Berkeley faculty since 1973, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science. Vogel is the author of eight books on business ethics, corporate responsiblity and business-government relations. His most recent book is The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsiblity. Vogel regularly teaches the required MBA class on business ethics and has lectured frequently on business ethics in executive education programs.
David Zilberman is a Professor and holds the Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. David's areas of expertise include agricultural and environmental policy; the economics of water, land, pesticides, and bioeconomy; as well as marketing and the economics of innovation and risk. David is the Co-Director of the Environmental Leadership Program and Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). He won the AAEA 2007 Quality of Communication Award and Outstanding Review of Agricultural Economics Article, the AAEA 2005 Publication of Enduring Quality Award, the 2002 Quality of Research Discovery Award, and the 2000 Cannes Water and the Economy Award. David has published over 180 refereed articles in journals ranging form Choices to Science, and edited 10 books. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, FAO, USDA, CGIAR, EPA, and CDFA. He served as Department Chair from 1994 to 1999, and was on the boards of the AAEA and C-FARE and on two NRC panels.
