Jeffrey Pfeffer received his BS and MS degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his PhD from Stanford University.
17 Facts About Jeffrey Pfeffer
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Jeffrey Pfeffer began his career at the business school at the University of Illinois and then taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1973 to 1979.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has served on the boards of several human capital management companies including Resumix, Unicru, and Workstream.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer served on the board of publicly traded Sonosite for ten years and on the boards of private high-technology companies Actify and Audible Magic.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is currently on the board of directors of the nonprofit, Quantum Leap Healthcare, as well as on the advisory boards of several private companies.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has won numerous awards for his articles and books.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer was elected a fellow of the Academy of Management more than 25 years ago, was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, won the Richard D Irwin award for scholarly contributions to management, is in the Thinker's 50 Hall of Fame, and in 2011, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in The Netherlands.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer formalized the study of resource dependence theory in his text The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence-Perspective, which he co-authored with Jerry Salancik.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has done theoretical and empirical research on the subjects of human resource management, power and politics in organizations, evidence-based management, the knowing-doing gap, leadership, stratification and labor markets inside organizations, the sociology of science, how and why theories become self-fulfilling, the psychological relationship between time and money, and economic evaluation.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has been recognised for writing case studies, and was listed among the top 40 case authors published by The Case Centre in 2016.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has taught both elective and core classes in human resource management and the core course in organizational behavior.
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The elective has been consistently popular, with Jeffrey Pfeffer teaching two sections per year and, over the years, other colleagues teaching sections as well.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer has written more than 150 articles and book chapters.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer's book, entitled Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time, was published in 2015 by HarperBusiness.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer estimates that such practices cause 120,000 excess deaths per year in the USA, about half of which might be preventable.
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For five years, Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a monthly column for the Time-Warner magazine, Business 2.0.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer currently writes an online column about twice a month for Fortune.