People

 Amir Goldberg

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
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​My work and interests lie at the intersection of computation and social science. As an undergraduate, I double majored in computer science and film studies at Tel-Aviv University. I have been exploring the connections between computation and culture ever since. I have an MA in sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a PhD in sociology from Princeton University. My work is not easily described using standard labels. I use computationally intensive language- and network-based methods applied to big data to model cultural dynamics in organizations, markets, and informal social groups. My research projects all share an overarching theme: the desire to understand the social mechanisms that underlie how people construct meaning and consequently pursue action. For more about my work, please visit my personal webpage.

Sameer B. Srivastava 

Assistant Professor and Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values

My research unpacks the interrelationships among the culture of social groups, the cognition of individuals in these groups, and the connections that people forge within and across groups. Much of my work is set in organizational contexts, where I use computational methods to examine how culture, cognition, and networks relate to career outcomes. As an undergraduate, I studied Economics at Harvard College. I then pursued a career in management consulting, earning an MBA from Harvard Business School along the way and eventually becoming a partner at Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). I then returned to Harvard for a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Sociology. My work spans, and draws novel connections among, multiple levels of analysis. Although anchored in sociology, my research draws insight and perspective from neighboring disciplines such as social psychology, political science, and linguistics. For more about about my work, please visit my personal webpage. 

Lab Members
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Richard Lu

University of California, Berkeley

​​Hi. My name is Richard Lu. I started the PhD program in Management of Organizations at UC Berkeley-Haas in 2014, and am thankful to be a part of this culture lab! Not surprisingly, my research interests involve studying organizational culture from a quantitative perspective, trying to understand how, when, and why people understand and manifest cultural values. I'm also interested in studying labor market discrimination, and perhaps how organizational culture can be used as a subtle form of it. In my free time, I greatly enjoy spending time with my wife and with my church.

Jesse fagan

University of Kentucky
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As a member of the lab Jesse Fagan is focused on finding linguistic signatures of organizational outcomes (e.g. job security, turnover) within email communications. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management at the University of Kentucky and a member of the LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis. His dissertation focuses on the differential impacts of novel and diverse information in organizational networks. He is broadly interested in organizational networks, organizational design, and the applications of machine learning to social science research. He has published work on the individual responses to mergers and acquisitions, inter-organizational networks, scale development, and psychological impacts of online gaming. He earned his BA in Mathematics and English, and his MA in Sociology at Colorado State University. ​

Sarah K. Stein

Stanford University
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Sarah is a 4th year PhD student in Macro OB at Stanford GSB. Her research focuses on using text-based analyses to understand how latent signals of culture affect the hiring process and beyond. She spends the majority of her spare time with her dog, who coincidentally is not pictured here. ​

jan OvergooR

Stanford University
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​Jan is a 2nd year PhD student at Stanford's MS&E department. Prior to this he was a Data Scientist at Airbnb. He is interesting in the causes and consequences of polarization.

Matthew corritore

Stanford University
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Matt is a fourth year PhD Candidate in Macro Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB. He is broadly interested in measuring culture in novel ways in order to understand how culture influences how people do work in organizations. His dissertation research examines the link between corporate culture and innovation, as well as changes in the strength of corporate culture during times of uncertainty. He is developing a language-based model of corporate culture using the comments that employees write about their companies on the website GlassDoor.com.

Anjali Bhatt

Anjali Bhatt is a third year PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB. Her research focuses on using computational techniques like agent-based modeling and text analysis to understand how organizational culture emerges, evolves, and diffuses, as well as ways in which it affects and is affected by diversity and inequality in organizations. Prior to graduate school, Anjali received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard and spent several years consulting with organizations on their social impact strategy. ​

V. GOVIND MANIAN

V. Govind Manian joined the Stanford Organizational Behavior department in 2015. For his dissertation, he intends to use cutting edge tools from natural language processing to illuminate how collective understandings are constructed from individual actions. He has co-authored publications that have appeared in American Sociological Review and Management Science. He holds a masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and bachelors degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Pure Mathematics.

Katharina Lix

Stanford University

Katharina is a first-year PhD student in Management Science & Engineering, concentrating in Computational Social Science. She uses network science and computational linguistics to study team culture and performance. Her current projects investigate the relationship between communication patterns of virtual teams of software developers and their performance. Katharina holds a BA in Psychology and Economics from Harvard (’14). Prior to joining Stanford, Katharina worked as a project manager at a pharmaceuticals company in Frankfurt, Germany, and taught English and yoga in Northern India. Hailing from Northwest Germany, she appreciates California’s sunshine every day and loves exploring its great outdoors. 
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Collaborators
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​Jennifer A. Chatman, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Gabriel Doyle, Psychology Department, Stanford University
Michael C. Frank, Psychology Department, Stanford University
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky
​Christopher C. Liu, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Sanaz Mobasseri, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Will Monroe, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Christopher Potts, Linguistics Department, Stanford University
Melissa A. Valentine, Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford University

Alumni
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​Soomin Cho, PhD Student, Columbia Business School
Aashna Garg, Stanford Center for Advanced Research through Online Learning