Homa Bahrami 
Senior Lecturer | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Expert on organizational flexibility and dynamic leadership
Areas of Expertise (8)
Dynamic Leadership
Organizational Flexibility
Leading Multi-cultural Knowledge Workers
Orchestrating Geo-distributed Teams
Impact of Technology on Organizational Design
Organizational Innovation for Globalization
Enterprise Adaptation & Flexibility
Transformational Change
About
Homa Bahrami is an international educator, advisor, board member, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility, team alignment, and dynamic leadership in global, knowledge-based industries. She is a senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a faculty director at the Haas Center for Executive Education, and has served on the Board of the Haas Center for Teaching Excellence.
She is the co-author of a major textbook (with Harold Leavitt, Stanford University), ”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,” (second edition published by Springer and co-authored with Stuart Evans, Carnegie Mellon) focuses on practical approaches for strategizing, organizing, and leading knowledge workers based on their collective experience and field research in Silicon Valley during the past 30 years.
Bahrami has served on the boards of directors of three public technology companies and has been a member of all three board committees: audit, compensation, and governance. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and is active in executive education and executive development in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
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Education (3)
Aston University: PhD, Organizational Behavior
Aston University: MSc, Industrial Administration
Hull University: BA with Honors, Sociology & Social Administration
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Selected External Service & Affiliations (8)
- Member of the Board of Directors, Fabrinet (2012-present)
- Member of the Board of Directors, FEI Inc. (2012-2016)
- Member of the Board of Directors, FormFactor, Inc.
- Director, Pedagogy, Inc.
- Advisory Director, Securitas Capital
- Member, Advisory Board: Institute for Growth & Innovation, Icarian, Kadiri, Green Border, Mercer Tech
- Member, Advisory Board: HEAL, UCSF
- Advisor and executive educator for global and high tech companies in the US and Europe
Positions Held (1)
At Haas since 1986
1995 – present, Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business 2006 – present, Faculty Director, Berkeley Executive Education, Haas School of Business 2009 – 2014, Advisory Board, Center for Teaching Excellence, Haas School of Business 2003-2004 & 2017 Guest Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 1999-2000, Guest Professor, University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany 1986 – 1995, Lecturer, Haas School of Business 1984 – 1988, Research Associate, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University 1982 – 1984, Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Media Appearances (1)
What the Air Force Can Teach American Business
Fortune online
2016-07-03
"Not only does this system demonstrate the value of assigning people to a task based on their experience and expertise, it also offers younger officers crucial management and leadership skills via experiential learning. 'This is a great opportunity to develop future leaders on the job,' said Dr. Homa Bahrami, senior lecturer at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business..."
Selected Papers & Publications (18)
Flexibility at Genentech: Developing Versatile Domain Experts and Deploying Flexible Resources at One U.S. Medical Affairs Unit
Berkeley Haas Case SeriesHoma Bahrami and Stuart Evans
2016
People Operations at Mozilla Corporation: Scaling a Peer-to-Peer Global Community
California Management ReviewHoma Bahrami
2013
Super-Flexibility for Real-Time Adaptation: Perspectives from Silicon Valley
California Management ReviewHoma Bahrami and Stuart Evans
2011
Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation
SpringerHoma Bahrami
2010
Nurturing Learning Partnerships
Learning Journeys Re-VisitedHoma Bahrami
2009
Leading Global Knowledge Workers
Global Talent: An Anthology of Human Capital Strategies for Today’s Borderless EnterpriseHoma Bahrami
2008
Leading High Tech Knowledge Workers
PKU Business Review (Beijing University)Homa Bahrami
2006
Organizing for Strategic Flexibility
The Leadership Frontiers, Financial TimesHoma Bahrami
2002
Nodal Organizational Designs in Silicon Valley
Business EngineeringHoma Bahrami, Stuart Evans
2000
Flexible Recycling & High Technology Entrepreneurship
Understanding Silicon ValleyNoma Bahrami
2000
Nurturing Learning Partnerships
Learning JourneysHoma Bahrami
2000
Flexible Re-Cycling and High-Technology Entrepreneurship
California Management ReviewHoma Bahrami, Stuart Evans
1995
The Emerging Flexible Organization: Perspectives from Silicon Valley
California Management ReviewHoma Bahrami
1992
Emerging Organizational Regimes in High Technology Firms: The Bi‐modal Form
Human Resource ManagementHoma Bahrami and Stuart Evans
1989
Strategy Making in High-Technology Firms: The Empiricist Mode
California Management ReviewHoma Bahrami and Stuart Evans
1989
Stratocracy in High-Technology Firms
California Management ReviewHoma Bahrami and Stuart Evans
1987
Strategic Management in High-Technology Firms: An Exploratory Study
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessHome Bahrami
1983
Teaching (8)
International Business: Organizational Innovation for Global Companies
EWMBA 258A
Accelerating Change Readiness and Agility
EWMBA 258
Creating Effective Organizations
XMBA 205
Statoil Project Executive Program
Berkeley Executive Education
New Manager Boot Camp for Scientists and Engineers
Berkeley Executive Education
Top Tech Program
Berkeley Executive Education
The CIO Institute
Berkeley Executive Education
Product Management Program
Berkeley Executive Education
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