Jeffrey Pfeffer
Academy of Management Scholar Jeffrey Pfeffer is a professor at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Stanford. He began his career at the University of Illinois and then taught for six years at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pfeffer is the author or co-author of more than 160 articles and 16 books, including Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time; The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First; and 7 Rules of Power: Surprising—But True—Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career. Pfeffer has won the Academy of Management’s Richard D. Irwin Award for scholarly contributions to management as well as numerous awards for his articles and books.
AOM Scholar Jeffrey Pfeffer is a professor at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Stanford. He began his career at the University of Illinois and then taught for six years at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pfeffer is the author or co-author of more than 16 articles and 16 books, including Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time; The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First; and 7 Rules of Power: Surprising—But True—Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career. Pfeffer has won the Academy of Management’s Richard D. Irwin Award for scholarly contributions to management as well as numerous awards for his articles and books.
Pfeffer hosts the Pfeffer on Power podcast and serves on the advisory boards for Collective Health, Medeloop, Quorso, and Veridian, and on the boards of the nonprofits Quantum Leap Healthcare and the San Francisco Playhouse. In the past, he has served on the boards of Resumix, Unicru, and Workstream (WSTM), all human capital software companies, Audible Magic, an internet company, FUJIFILM’s SonoSite (SONO), a NASDAQ-listed company designing and manufacturing portable ultrasound machines, Longeveron (LGVN), a biotech company, and Berlin Packaging, a Chicago-based supplier of packaging services.
More content featuring Pfeffer
AOM Journals:
- ‘Crying Wolf’: A Comment on Dahl and Pierce and a Suggestion on Using (Danish) Prescription Data
- COMMENTARY: Work Hours and Health: A Comment on ‘Beyond Nine to Five’
- The Theory-Practice Gap: Myth or Reality?
- Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force
- New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects
- The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
- The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective
- When Henry Mintzberg Writes, People React
- Reflections on the Darker Side of Conventional Power Analytics
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