Jeffrey Pfeffer
Stanford University Business School
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he has been teaching since 1979.
He has led executive seminars in 28 countries and lectured in management development programs and consulting for many U.S. companies, associations and universities. He currently serves on two corporate boards of directors. 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. He has authored/co-authored twelve books and published more than 120 articles and book chapters. Dr. Pfeffer has served on the faculties of the business schools at the University of Illinois and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1994-1996, he served as Director of Executive Education, responsible for all of the Stanford business school's executive education activities. During the 1981-1982 academic year he was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Recent clients include: Wal-Mart, eBay, Nike, BASF, DuPont and Ford Motor Co. Joe is also part of a team of investors and entrepreneurs building a biofuels development and manufacturing business based on principles of renewable distributed energy and industrial ecology.
Dr. Pfeffer received his BS in Administration and Management Science and his MS in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University. He obtained his PhD in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.