Jeffrey Pfeffer
Stanford professor and business theorist
Jeffrey Pfeffer is an American business theorist who has taught organizational behavior at Stanford since 1979. He has written books on power, leadership and management.
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American Born 1946 in St. Louis, United States
About Jeffrey Pfeffer
Jeffrey Pfeffer was born in 1946 and works as a business theorist in the United States. He holds the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior chair at Stanford's business school. He has taught at Stanford since 1979, after earlier posts at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon University for his bachelor's and master's degrees and earned his doctorate at Stanford. He teaches a second-year MBA elective called Paths to Power. His books include 7 Rules of Power, Leadership BS and Dying for a Paycheck. He also wrote Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense, subtitled Profiting from Evidence-Based Management. Pfeffer has written for Fortune and Harvard Business Review. He received the Academy of Management's Richard I. Irwin Award for scholarly contributions to management, and an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in 2011.