Jennifer Chatman, Academic Partner
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Jennifer Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business and the faculty director of the Haas School of Business PhD Program.
Her research and consulting work focus on the business advantages of leveraging organizational culture and leading change.
Dr. Chatman has acted as a consultant to a variety of organizations including Arthur Andersen, Citigroup, The Coca-Cola Company, Fannie Mae, Franklin Templeton, Freddie Mac, Gallo Winery, Genentech, Pacific Gas & Electric, Kaiser-Permanente, the US Postal Service and the US Treasury.
She was the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School (2001-02) and the Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management Philosophy and Values at the Haas School of Business (1999-2002). From 1987-1993, Professor Chatman was a faculty member of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Her research has been highlighted in Business Week, the Financial Times, Fortune, Inc., The Jungle, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and Working Mother. She has appeared on CNN, NPR and CBS news programs.
Recently, Dr. Chatman co-edited The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, the first international collection on culture and climate in organizational behavior.
She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.


