Heather A. Haveman

Heather A. Haveman is a Professor of Sociology and Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a B.A. in History (University of Toronto, 1982), an M.B.A. (University of Toronto, 1985), and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations (University of California, Berkeley, 1990). She has served at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (1990-1994), Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management (1994-1999), and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business (1998-2007) before joining UC Berkeley in 2006.

Her research explores organizational evolution, industry dynamics, and career mobility. Key projects include studies of American tech firms, Chinese listed firms, and historical analyses of U.S. collegiate women's sports and 19th-century American magazines. She employs mixed methods, including NLP for literature reviews and corporate culture mapping.

Recent publications span topics like

• organizational change and economic inequality (2025)
• computational literature reviews (2024)
• gender equality in corporate practices (2023)
• institutional logics in organizational behavior (2023)
• coevolution of capitalism and enterprise (2022)

She has received prestigious awards including the

• 2016 ASA Best Book Award for Magazines and the Making of America
• 2017 Barrington Moore Book Award

Her teaching portfolio includes graduate courses in organizational sociology and undergraduate classes on entrepreneurship and evidence evaluation. She actively mentors PhD students and provides detailed research design guidance via her personal website.