Jeffrey Pfeffer (www.jeffreypfeffer.com) is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Pfeffer is the author or co-author of 16 books on topics including power in organizations, managing people, evidence-based management and The Knowing-Doing Gap.
Pfeffer received his Ph.D. from Stanford and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Stanford in 1979 as a full professor.
Author of more than 150 articles and book chapters, Pfeffer has won numerous awards for his scholarly research, including an Honorary Doctorate from Tilburg University in The Netherlands.
Pfeffer has taught seminars in 40 countries and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, London Business School, Singapore Management University, and for many years, IESE in Barcelona. He has served on the board of directors of several human capital software companies as well as other public and private company and non-profit boards. He lives in Hillsborough, California.
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