Jennifer Chatman

Jenny Chatman is the Bank of America Dean and 16th dean of the Haas School of Business. Previously, she held the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professorship in the Management of Organizations (MORS) Group. Chatman has held numerous roles including Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of Learning Strategies, and Faculty Director of the Haas PhD Program.

In her research, teaching, and consulting work, she focuses on how organizations can leverage culture for strategic success and high performance. Her award-winning research has shown, for example, how emphasizing innovation in the context of a strong culture increases firms’ financial success, how narcissistic leaders create organizational cultures lower in collaboration and integrity, and how norms to cooperate can cause members to blur differences among them, even if those differences are useful for group performance—suggesting that collaboration should be calibrated in diverse teams.

She has consulted with numerous firms including, BioMarin, Draper, Richards, Kaplan Foundation, Equinor Franklin Templeton Investor Services, Lam Research Maersk, Mars Inc., Mercedes-Benz, Motorola, New York Life, Nike, Novartis, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Pixar, Portland Trail Blazers, Prudential, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, Raiders Football, Roche, Salesforce, Sandia National Laboratory, Schneider Electric, Sony, The Weitz Company, Warburg Pincus, WD-40 Company, Wolters Kluwer, United Capital, U.S. Treasury.

Chatman is the Co-Founder of the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation and co-host of “The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer” podcast. She also runs the Leading Strategy Execution Through Culture executive education program.. Chatman earned her PhD at U.S. Berkeley Haas, and her BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley. Her new book is Making Organizational Culture Great: Moving Beyond Popular Beliefs.
 

Expertise and Research Interests

• Organizational Culture and Firm Performance
• Norms in Diverse Groups
• Leadership and the Impact of Leader Attributes on Team Performance