Don Moore

Professor of Management of Organizations · Haas School of Business · UC Berkeley

Self-aggrandizement

I was born in 1970 to two outstanding parents, Lillian and Richard Moore, in Minnesota. I went to Second Foundation, a free school in Minneapolis. During 1980, my family lived in Berlin, Germany for six months and I attended the John F. Kennedy School. In 1982 we moved from St. Paul to Johannesburg, South Africa. We lived there for five years and I attended the American International School of Johannesburg. In 1987 we moved to Pocatello, Idaho, where I completed the last two years of high school.

I graduated from high school in 1989 and went to Carleton College, where I majored in Psychology and got a concentration in Natural History. Upon graduation, I went to work for McMaster-Carr Supply Company in Elmhurst, Illinois, doing dreadfully dull work for which I was generously compensated. In July 1995 I left McMaster-Carr to work as a research assistant to Max Bazerman in the Organization Behavior Department at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. There I did fascinating work for which I was paid a pittance. It was much better. In the Fall of 1996 I started in the Ph.D. program in Organization Behavior at Kellogg.

I married the stunningly beautiful and highly talented Sarah Miller in 1999. In 2000, I began as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2002, my first son Josh was born. I visited the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales in Sydney for the first three months of 2003 and again for the first three months of 2007. In 2005, my second son Anderson was born. I got tenure at CMU in 2008.

In 2010 I accepted a job in the Management of Organizations group (MORS) at the Haas School. In 2014, I was named the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Professor of Leadership and Communication I, which is different from the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Professor of Leadership and Communication II, the second post being held by my colleague Cameron Anderson. I informed Cameron that the numbers are rankings.

In 2021, I accepted the post of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In 2023 I served briefly as Acting Dean of the Haas School. In 2024 I gratefully accepted a "demotion" to being a professor again.

In 2025 I served as President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

I have a double-jointed thumb on my left hand and I can do calligraphy.