Sameer Srivastava

Professor | Ewald T. Grether Professor in Business Administration and Public Policy | Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab | Co-Director, Berkeley Culture Initiative, Haas School of Business
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Sameer B. Srivastava is Professor and Ewald T. Grether Professor in Business Administration and Public Policy at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and is also affiliated with UC Berkeley Sociology. His research unpacks the complex interrelationships among the culture of social groups, the cognition of individuals within these groups, and the connections that people forge within and across groups. Much of his work is set in organizational contexts, where he uses computational methods to examine how culture, cognition, and networks relate to career outcomes.

His work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and Organization Science. It has been covered in media outlets such as The New York Times, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. Sameer teaches a popular MBA elective course, Power and Politics in Organizations, and co-directs the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture Lab. In a prior career, Sameer was a partner at a global management consultancy (Monitor Group; now Monitor Deloitte). He holds AB, AM, MBA, and PhD degrees from Harvard University.
 

Academic Background 

PhD, Organizational Behavior/Sociology, Harvard University

AM, Sociology, Harvard University

MBA, Harvard Business School

AB, Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College

Publications & Media

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Sameer Srivastava: Interactional Language

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Papers & Articles 

Aligning Differences: Discursive Diversity and Team Performance

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Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance.

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Fitting in or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness

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An Intraorganizational Ecology of Individual Attainment

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Agents of Change or Cogs in the Machine? Reexamining the Influence of Female Managers on the Gender Wage Gap

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Pulling Closer and Moving Apart: Interaction, Identity, and Influence in the U.S. Senate, 1973 to 2009

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Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity.

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Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations

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Awards & Honors 
  • UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Graduate Student Researcher Award ($15,126), 2016
  • Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellowship (Recognition for faculty members “with a record of accomplishment and a very bright future”), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
  • “Club 6” (Recognition for teaching excellence), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2012-present.
  • Best Paper Award, Research Paper Competition, 2016 Wharton People Analytics Conference.
  • Best Paper Award, Research Paper Competition, 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference.
  • Best Paper Award, 2015 Kellogg Computational Social Science Summit.
  • Runner Up, Best Paper Award, Academy of Management OMT Division, 2015.
  • Schwabacher Fellowship (the Highest honor for Assistant Professors), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2014.
  • Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation Research Award ($15,000), 2012
  • State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2011.
  • Best Paper Award in Organizational Behavior, Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London Business School, 2011
  • Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University, 1998, 2010
Academic Background 

PhD, Organizational Behavior/Sociology, Harvard University

AM, Sociology, Harvard University

MBA, Harvard Business School

AB, Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College

Publications & Media

Videos 

Sameer Srivastava: Interactional Language

WATCH VIDEO
VIEW MORE
Papers & Articles 

Aligning Differences: Discursive Diversity and Team Performance

VIEW

Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance.

VIEW

Fitting in or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness

VIEW

An Intraorganizational Ecology of Individual Attainment

VIEW

Agents of Change or Cogs in the Machine? Reexamining the Influence of Female Managers on the Gender Wage Gap

VIEW

Pulling Closer and Moving Apart: Interaction, Identity, and Influence in the U.S. Senate, 1973 to 2009

VIEW

Intraorganizational Network Dynamics in Times of Ambiguity.

VIEW

Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations

VIEW
VIEW MORE