Faculty Directory

Sara Beckman is the Faculty Director of the Product Management and Product Management Studio programs at Berkeley Executive Education. Sara is an award-winning Haas faculty member who creates and delivers courses on design, innovation, and product management. She has published case studies on design for sustainability, design road mapping, and leveraging design approaches in sales processes...

Dr. Homa Bahrami is an international educator, advisor, board member, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility, team alignment, and dynamic leadership in global, knowledge-based industries. She is a senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and...

Jennifer Chatman is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management, and a faculty member in the Management of Organizations (MORS) Group at Berkeley Haas. In her research, teaching, and consulting work, she focuses on how organizations can leverage culture for strategic success...

Mark Rittenberg is a specialist in Leadership Communications helping individuals and teams unleash their full potential. Rittenberg utilizes acting and music skills to help individuals develop their leadership presence...

Rich Lyons is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Haas School of Business, where he served as dean from 2008 to 2018 and acting dean from 2004 to 2005.

Henry Chesbrough, who coined the term “open innovation,” is educational director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at Berkeley Haas. His research focuses on technology management and innovation strategy...

Steve Tadelis' research primarily revolves around e-commerce and the economics of the internet...

Juliana Schroeder is an Associate Professor and the Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy & Values at Berkeley Haas. Her research explores how people make social inferences about others.

Thomas Lee is an Associate Adjunct Professor and Research Scientist in the Haas Operations and Information Technology Management Group at the Haas School of Business...

Dr. Kurt Beyer is a member of UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School and Graduate School of Information Science faculties, where he teaches Cal’s prestigious Entrepreneurship Program to MBAs, undergrads, and grad students...

Frederico Finan is a Professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of Economics and Haas School of Business. A member of UC Berkeley’s faculty since 2009, he teaches graduate courses in data analytics in Haas’ Executive MBA Programs...

Jonathan Kolstad is an Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy and the Henry J. Kaiser Chair at Berkeley Haas. He is also the Co-director of the Health Initiative at the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab.

Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at Berkeley Haas. His research focuses on energy and environmental markets, and, in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy.

Michael Jordan is a Professor at UC Berkeley in machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence. He is one of the leading figures in machine learning, and in 2016 Science reported him as the world's most influential computer scientist.

Reed Walker is an Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy and Economics at UC Berkeley.

Dacher Keltner is a Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and the Co-Director for the Greater Good Science Center, which studies the psychology, neuroscience...

Dr. Steven Weber works at the intersection of technology markets, intellectual property regimes, and international politics. His research, teaching, and advisory work for the last decade have focused on the political economy of knowledge...

Abhishek Nagaraj is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations (MORS) group at Berkeley Haas.

Laura D’Andrea Tyson is an influential scholar of economics and public policy and an expert on trade and competitiveness who has also served as a presidential adviser...

Kellie McElhaney is on the Berkeley Haas faculty as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and the Founding Director of the Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership (EGAL).

Cort Worthington teaches various leadership courses in the Haas full-time MBA program, the Berkeley Columbia Executive MBA program, the Evening Weekend MBA program, and the Haas Undergraduate Business program. A leadership consultant, he...

Steven Huff teaches marketing at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Adam Leipzig is expert at bringing media industry smarts to diverse companies worldwide, and coaching senior executives how to shine in front of their boards, investors, teams and customers. As CEO of Entertainment Media...

Doy Charnsupharindr is an executive coach and an instructor of leadership courses, focusing on authentic leadership, presence, communication, storytelling, and impactful presentations. He coaches executives from around the world and also trains them on how to incorporate coaching techniques into the way they lead their teams and organizations.

David Riemer is a former ad agency President and Internet marketing executive who now works with entrepreneurs, artists and students to focus their ideas. In short, he helps them get their story straight. He created Box Out Industries...

Whitney Hischier works with executives on managerial, consulting and entrepreneurship skills.

Dr. Sahar Yousef is a cognitive neuroscientist and faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Rajiv Ball is a Partner at THNK, the School of Creative Leadership. THNK offers programs that support executives and their organizations to become more innovative. At Haas, he teaches courses on leadership, including a core course on building trust-based...

David Charron is a member of the professional faculty of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Mr.

Sean Foote has been a venture capitalist investing in early-stage companies since 1998, most recently as co-founder and Managing Director of Transform Capital.

Robert Strand's research and teaching focuses on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), strategic management, and leadership. He is a frequent contributor to popular and academic venues including...

Matthew Stepka is Managing Partner of Machina Ventures, an investment firm focused on early stage, artificial intelligence and data science enabled companies.

Dr. Richard Huntsinger is a professor, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Fortune 500 operations executive, and management consultant.

Prof. Yaniv Konchitchki is a full-time tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas. He is an expert in the linkages between capital markets, finance, macroeconomy, financial & information systems technology, and financial reporting.

An expert in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking, Prof.

Mathijs De Vaan is an Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business. He earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Columbia University after defending his dissertation in June 2015.

Przemyslaw Jeziorski published multiple articles in the leading economics and marketing scholarly journals.

Vivek Rao is a lecturer at Berkeley Haas, where he teaches human-centered design, foresight, and innovation methods to MBA and EWMBA students.

Erica Peng is a Lecturer & Career Coach at the Haas School of Business. She has taught at Haas since 2015.

Martin Lettau is a Professor, Kruttschnitt Family Chair in Financial Institutions, and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Haas School of Business. His areas of expertise are financial economics, asset pricing, investments, and mutual funds.

Abhishek Nagaraj is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations (MORS) group at Berkeley Haas.