Thomas D Dee II Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Stanford's Graduate School of Business

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D Dee II professor of organisational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He has taught at Stanford since 1979 and his career includes stops at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Pfeffer is the author or co-author of 13 books including:  The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management. Between 2003 and 2007 he wrote the monthly column, The Human Factor, for Business 2.0.

Dr Pfeffer also serves on the boards of several for-profit companies and nonprofit organisations.