Faculty & Speakers
Global Energy Leadership Program
Berkeley
Cameron Anderson is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a doctorate in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. He has been on the Berkeley faculty since 2005. Prior to coming to Haas, Professor Anderson taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He won Professor of the Year at Stern and the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award for the Full-Time M.B.A. Program at Haas. He has consulted for many organizations and currently teaches two courses in the Haas full-time program, Power and Politics, and Negotiations and Conflict Resolution.
Professor Anderson is an expert on topics pertaining to power, status, and influence processes, leadership, negotiations and conflict resolution, and team dynamics. He has published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Current Directions in Psychological Science, European Journal of Social Psychology, and Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, as well as published numerous book chapters and co-edited one book.
Dr. Homa Bahrami is an international educator, advisor, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility & team effectiveness in dynamic, knowledge-based industries. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where she has been on the faculty since 1986. She is the co-author of a major textbook (with Harold Leavitt), Managerial Psychology: Managing Behavior in Organizations, published by the University of Chicago Press, and translated into many languages. Her latest book Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises, published by Springer (2e, 2009) focuses on practical approaches for organizing and leading knowledge workers in dynamic settings. Homa serves on several boards in Silicon Valley and Europe and is active in executive education and executive development in the US, Europe, and Asia. She works with executive teams on complex re-organizations, team transitions, and team effectiveness, and with HR & OD professionals on executive development and learning interventions.
Severin Borenstein is the Co-Director of CSEM, a Professor of Business Economics at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Director of the University of California Energy Institute. Professor Borenstein holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. His research focuses on business competition and government regulation. He is the author of many articles on competition in electricity markets and on the gasoline and oil markets. Professor Borenstein also has done extensive research on the airline industry. He has advised many state and federal agencies and state and foreign governments on energy and airline matters. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
Andrew M. Isaacs is Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering and in the Haas School of Business. He is also Executive Director of UC Berkeley’s Management of Technology Program, the joint graduate program of the Haas School of Business, College of Engineering and School of Information. He is founder and Co-Director of UC Berkeley’s new Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation, and since 2005 has served as Faculty Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Executive Education, Berkeley’s center for advanced training of corporate management.
The Management of Technology (MOT) Program at UC Berkeley is a graduate program offering 52 courses in management and high technology, plus a wide range of programs that integrate high tech companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere with UC Berkeley. Under Isaacs’ leadership the program has grown to be the largest interdisciplinary program at Berkeley with nearly 1,500 graduate student enrollments in the program annually, making it the largest joint engineering-MBA program in the world. Along with his teaching and program leadership responsibilities, Isaacs directs several graduate fellowship programs, including the IBM Venture Fellows Program, the Hitachi Fellows Program, the Mayfield Fellows Program, the China Fellows Program, and the UNIDO Fellows Program. MOT’s impact at UC Berkeley has been profound: Berkeley is now ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the #1 MBA program by technology company recruiters, ahead of MIT, Stanford, CMU and other leading technology-focused MBA programs.
In early 2007, Isaacs co-founded the Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation (CEEI) with a mandate to serve as UC Berkeley’s campus-wide center focused on commercialization opportunities for new energy technology. CEEI operates as a hub for Berkeley’s many cleantech and renewable energy initiatives, and includes on its board many of the university’s cleantech thought leaders.
Isaacs teaches four popular graduate-level courses at UC Berkeley: The Business of Nanotechnology; Marketing for High Tech Entrepreneurs; Energy, Sustainability and Business Innovation; Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. In addition to his work at UC Berkeley, Isaacs consults on technology strategy at companies in the US, Europe and Asia. Isaacs’ clients include start-ups and multinationals in IT, energy and life science.
Isaacs’ experience prior to joining UC Berkeley includes successful careers as an entrepreneur, scientist and marketing executive with public can private companies in Silicon Valley. He began his career as Senior Scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
Michael Watts is currently Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His current research and writing addresses the natural and social history of oil in Nigeria entitled Black Gold: Oil, Nation and Violence in Nigeria. He has also conducted research in Senegambia, Kerala (India), Vietnam and California on a number of issues pertaining to agrarian change, political Islam, agro-food systems, and political ecology. He has also established the Berkeley Working group on Environmental Politics, the major centre for cross-disciplinary political ecological research on the Berkeley campus. The author of 8 books and over 100 articles, Watts has served as the advisor to over 50 PhD dissertations (as Chair) and over 60 as second reader. He has received a number of awards and fellowships from scholarly organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was educated at University College London and the University of Michigan and has held visiting appointments at the Smithsonian Institution, Bergen, Bologna, and London. Watts has served as a consultant to UNDP, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and a number of NGOs. He serves on the Board of Food first and the Pacific Institute.
