UC Berkeley's: New Manager Boot Camp

For Newly Promoted Engineers and Scientists

About the New Manager Boot Camp

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Dr. Homa Bahrami leads and facilitates the New Manager Boot Camp. She is an international educator, advisor, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility & team effectiveness in dynamic, knowledge-based industries. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where she has been on the faculty since 1986. She is the co-author of a major textbook (with Harold Leavitt) "Managerial Psychology: Managing Behavior in Organizations", published by the University of Chicago Press, and translated into many languages. Her latest book "Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises", published by Springer (second edition, 2009) focuses on practical approaches for organizing and leading knowledge workers in dynamic settings. Homa serves on several boards in Silicon Valley and Europe and is active in executive education and executive development in the US, Europe, and Asia. She works with executive teams on complex re-organizations, team transitions, and team effectiveness, and with HR & OD professionals on executive development and learning interventions. She has worked with and trained many new managers in the life science and technology industries.

Introducing Homa Bahrami and her new book Super-Flexibility

Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises by Dr. Homa Bahrami

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Jennifer A. Chatman is the Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She was the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 2001-02, and on the faculty of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern from 1987-1993. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Professor Chatman's research and consulting focus on the business advantages of leveraging organizational culture and leading strategic change, and she has worked with a variety of organizations including Adobe, ALZA, Boise-Cascade, British Telecom, Chiron, Cisco Systems, Genentech, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Sandia National Laboratories, SAP, and the U.S. Treasury.

She teaches a variety of executive management and MBA courses focusing on leveraging high performance cultures, leading change, and making effective decisions. She teaches in executive education programs at Haas, Stanford University, Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Duke Corporate Education, The Medical Group Management Association, and the Institute for Management Studies.

Professor Chatman's research has been highlighted in Business Week, Business 2.0, The Financial Times, Fortune, Inc., The Jungle, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Working Mother. She has had numerous speaking engagements and radio and television appearances and was a keynote speaker for the Economist Innovation Summit. She has written articles that have appeared in various academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and California Management Review. Professor Chatman has won numerous awards for her research and was recently (2007) awarded the Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence in the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program.

Leadership Training and Corporate Development

Smart Management Tips in an Economic Downturn

Learn more about Jennifer A. Chatman and the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Cameron Anderson is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a doctorate in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. He has been on the Berkeley faculty since 2005. Prior to coming to Haas, Professor Anderson taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He won Professor of the Year at the Stern School and the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award for the Full-Time M.B.A. Program at the Haas School. He has consulted for many organizations and currently teaches two courses in the Haas full-time program, Power and Politics, and Negotiations and Conflict Resolution. Professor Anderson is an expert on topics pertaining to power, status, and influence processes, leadership, negotiations and conflict resolution, and team dynamics. He has published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Current Directions in Psychological Science, European Journal of Social Psychology, and Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, as well as published numerous book chapters and co-edited one book.

Cameron Anderson Discusses Competence & Leadership

Learn more about Cameron Anderson and the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Read the Time Magazine article Competence: Is Your Boss Faking It? discussing Cameron Anderson 2009 paper "Why Do Dominant Personalities Attain Influence in Face-to-Face Groups?"

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Cort Worthington is a lecturer at The University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He 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, Cort was co-founder of toy company Primordial, LLC, where he raised capital and served as Director of Operations. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, he worked for many years as a film producer, directing documentary crews around the world. He also spent fourteen seasons leading elite teams as a forest fire fighter and parachuting U.S. Forest Smokejumper.

Cort holds an MA in Communication from Stanford University, an MBA from Columbia University Business School (finance, marketing) and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley (leadership). His organizational client list includes Exxon Mobil, Oracle, the U.S. Army, Kaiser, McKesson, Stanford University, and Sun Microsystems.