Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979.
He is the author or co-author of more than ten books, among them:
He has also published more than 100 articles and book chapters.
Dr. Pfeffer has served on the faculties of the business schools at the University of Illinois and the University of California at Berkeley. During the 1981-1982 academic year he was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He currently serves on the board of directors of:
He has served as a member of the visiting committee for the Harvard Business School and is currently on the advisory boards of EarlyBird, a venture capital firm, and Connet and Company, a small high technology executive recruiting firm. He also writes a monthly column for Business 2.0.
Dr. Pfeffer received his B.S. in Administration and Management Science and his M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
From 1994-1996, Dr. Pfeffer served as Director of Executive Education, responsible for all of the Stanford business school's executive education activities. He has taught executive seminars in 27 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico in addition to lecturing in management development programs and consulting for many companies, associations, and universities in the United States.
Dr. Pfeffer is a member and Fellow of the Academy of Management and a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association. He has won the Richard D. Irwin award for Scholarly Contributions to Management as well as several awards for books and articles.
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People
Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
Power: Why Some People Have It - And Other Don't
What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom about Management
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
7 Rules of Power: Surprising — But True — Advice On How To Get Things Done And Advance Your Career