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==Career==
After receiving his undergraduate degree, Simon obtained a research assistantship in municipal administration that turned into the directorship of an [[operations research]] group at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he worked from 1939 to 1942.  By arrangement with the University of Chicago, during his years at Berkeley, he took his doctoral exams by mail and worked on his dissertation after hours.

From 1942 to 1949, Simon was a professor of political science and also served as department chairman at [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] in [[Chicago]]. There, he began participating in the seminars held by the staff of the [[Cowles Commission]] who at that time included [[Trygve Haavelmo]], [[Jacob Marschak]], and [[Tjalling Koopmans]]. He thus began an in-depth study of economics in the area of [[Institutional economics|institutionalism]]. Marschak brought Simon in to assist in the study he was currently undertaking with Sam Schurr of the "prospective economic effects of [[atomic energy]]".<ref name="nobel autobio">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1978/simon-bio.html|title=Herbert A. Simon – Biographical|website=nobelprize.org|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730021924/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1978/simon-bio.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell Chess Match.jpg|thumb|Simon (left) in a chess match against [[Allen Newell]] {{circa|1958}}]]

From 1949 to 2001, Simon was a faculty member at [[Carnegie-Mellon University]], in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1949, Simon became a professor of administration and chairman of the Department of Industrial Management at [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] ("Carnegie Tech"), which, in 1967, became Carnegie-Mellon University. Simon later also<ref>Simon 1991 p. 136</ref> taught [[psychology]] and [[computer science]] in the same university,<ref name="nobel autobio" /> (occasionally visiting other universities<ref>[http://philosophy.princeton.edu/about/faculty-1949 "Princeton University, Department Of Philosophy, Faculty Since 1949"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918205523/https://philosophy.princeton.edu/about/faculty-1949 |date=September 18, 2020 }}, at philosophy.princeton.edu accessed 2014-Oct-13</ref>).