Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a position he has held since 1979. Born on July 23, 1946, in St.
Louis, Missouri, he is an American business theorist. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois and later taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1973 to 1979. He received his BS and MS degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.
D. from Stanford University.