Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is the author or
co-author of ten books, and has also published more than 100 articles and book
chapters.
His books include:
- The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence
Perspective
- Organizational Design
- Power in Organizations
- Organizations and Organization Theory
- Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations (translated
into German, Dutch, Chinese, Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese)
- Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work
Force (translated into Portuguese, Korean, Indonesian, Dutch, Spanish, and
Turkish)
- New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects (translated
into Spanish)
- The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First (translated
into Spanish and Japanese)
- The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
(translated into Japanese)
- Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with
Ordinary People.
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 1) Portola Packaging, a
$200 million manufacturer of tamper-evident bottle caps and related equipment,
2) SonoSite, a publicly traded company that develops portable ultrasound
equipment and 3) Audible Magic, a start-up developing music and advertising
recognition watermarking and recognition technology, and 4) Actify, a start-up
with a product that permits easy 3-dimensional visualization of product designs
on the internet. He is a member of the visiting committee for the Harvard
Business School and on the advisory board for MTW Corporation, a software and
computer consulting company.
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 26 countries including
Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore,
Korea, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Great
Britain, 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.
