Heather Haveman

Heather A. Haveman is Professor of Sociology and Business at the University of California, Berkeley.  She received a BA in history and an MBA in management and finance from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from UC Berkeley.  Before coming to Berkeley in 2006, she taught at Duke (1990-94), Cornell (1994-99), and Columbia (1998-2007).  When she’s not moving around the country, she studies how organizations, industries, and employees’ careers evolve.  Her published studies have investigated California thrifts (1872-1928 and 1960s-1990s), Iowa telephone companies (1900-1917), Manhattan hotels (1898-1990), California hospitals (1978-1991), U.S. electric power plants (1980-1992), American magazines (1741-1860), and large Chinese firms (1992-2007).  These studies have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, theAmerican Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Business Venturing, Management and Organization Review, Organization Science, Poetics, and Sociological Science. A book on magazines is being published by Princeton University Press in August. Her current research involves antebellum American magazines, post-Prohibition U.S. wineries, and 21st-century Chinese firms.