Robert I. Sutton
Stanford professor and management author
Robert I. Sutton is a Stanford professor and organizational researcher who studies leadership, innovation and workplace dynamics. He is a New York Times best-selling author.
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American Born 1954 in Chicago, United States
About Robert I. Sutton
Robert I. Sutton is an American professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1983. He also holds a courtesy appointment in organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he earned his doctorate in organizational psychology at the University of Michigan in 1984. His book The No Asshole Rule earned the 2007 Quill Award in the business category and became a New York Times bestseller. The Toronto Globe and Mail picked Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense, written with Jeffrey Pfeffer, as its top business title for 2006. With Huggy Rao he wrote Scaling Up Excellence, a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Sutton is a fellow at the design consulting firm IDEO and a co-founder of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, known as the d.school. He has also written The Friction Project with Huggy Rao.