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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.
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.
Mark Rittenberg, Ed.D. holds a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. He currently works as a management consultant to a number of major corporations across the globe. Rittenberg specializes in assessing organizational culture and developing individualized EQ strategies for Cultural Change in the workplace. He has headed consulting teams for a number of corporations including: the Southwestern Bell Corporation, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Bank of America, Fieldstone Mortgage Company, Twentieth Century Investments, Gap Inc, Levi-Strauss, The United States Department of Energy, Fresh Express, and Merck Pharmaceuticals. The projects range from unionmanagement contract negotiations, leadership development, team building, and creating an EQ culture in corporations and in Government departments.
In 2002, he co-created the Brand Ambassador Program for The Avis Corporation, Southern Africa. This cultural transformation program focuses on all employees living the Avis brand values, vision, and the promises. The Brand Ambassador Program has achieved increased profitability and major improvements around customer satisfaction making Avis the number one car rental company in Southern Africa. The Brand Ambassador Program has been introduced into a number of blue-chip companies in the USA and South Africa.
Over the past 30 years, Rittenberg's work has taken him across the globe, where his unique methodology has helped companies in the USA, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Lebanon, Dubai, and Southern Africa.
From 1968 - 1975 Rittenberg studied acting and directing at the American Conservatory Theatre. From 1975 - 1985 he served as the Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Drama Workshop, an Israeli-Palestinian theatre project.
Dr. Rittenberg has worked for more than a decade with leaders from Jordon, Egypt, the Palestinian authority, and Israel. Currently, he serves as both a mediator and communication specialist for the UNESCO Middle East Peace Process forum.
