Professor Dr. Heather Haveman

Biography

Heather Haveman is a Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests encompass organizational theory, economic sociology, historical sociology, entrepreneurship, organizational demography, gender, careers, and social mobility. She holds a B.A. in History from the University of Toronto (1982), an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto (1985), and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from the University of California, Berkeley (1990). Professor Haveman has previously worked at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business from 1990 to 1994, Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management from 1994 to 1999, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business from 1998 to 2007. She joined UC Berkeley in July 2006 and studies how organizations, fields, and the careers of their members evolve. Her current work includes examining American technology firms and the Washington Post newspaper, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, and incorporating natural-language-processing techniques to analyze academic literature and corporate cultures.

Research Interests

Experience