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Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full professor at Emory's Goizueta Business School and Harvard Business School, and is now founder and president of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a non-profit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance. Professor Sonnenfeld's related research has been published in eighty scholarly articles which appeared in the leading academic journals in management such as: Administrative Sciences Quarterly, The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, The Journal of Organizational Behavior, Social Forces, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management. He has also authored five books, including The Hero's Farewell, an award winning study of CEO succession. At the same time, his work is regularly cited by the general media such as: Fortune, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post, CBS (60 Minutes), NBC (The Today Show), ABC (Nightline,Good Morning America), CNN (Crossfire, Talkback Live), and CNBC (Power Lunch). Professor Sonnenfeld is currently the senior associate dean of executive programs as well as the Lester Crown Professor-in-the-Practice of Management for the Yale School of Management.

Consultancies
AARP
American Cancer Society
BellSouth
Booz Allen Hamilton
Caremark Rx
CNF Transport
DHL
DuPont
General Electric
IBM
Marsh & McClennon
McKinsey
National Council on Aging
Norwegian Cruise Lines
Sun Trust Banks
United Parcel Service
US Franchising

Recent Achievements and Honors
Academy of Management Award for the Best Article of 2005
Stand Out New Management Book of the Year - Business Week
Outstanding Contributions to Executive Education - The American Society of Training and Development
Outstanding Educator Award - Emory University
Distinguished Innovation in US Management Education, Sacred Heart University and Connecticut Governor John Rowland
Outstanding Research in Social Issues - Academy of Management
AT&T Prize for Research in Social Issues
Dissertation of the Year in Social Issues - Academy of Management
The Governor's Personnel Oversight Commission - State of Georgia

Editorships
Academy of Management Journal
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Journal of Human Resource Management
Organizational Dynamics

Books
Triumphant Tragedies: Lessons in Overcoming Adversity (with A. Ward), Harvard Business School Press (forthcoming)

FIRING BACK: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters (with A. Ward), Harvard Business School Press, 2007

Leadership and Governance From the Inside Out (with R. Gandossy), John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Concepts of Leadership, The International Library of Management, Dartmouth Publishing Company Ltd., 1995

The Hero's Farewell: What happens when CEOs Retire, Oxford University Press, 1988

Managing Career Systems: Channeling the Flow of Executive Careers, Richard D. Irwin, 1984

Managing Career Systems, Teaching Manual, Richard D. Irwin, 1984

Career Management: An Introduction to Self-Assessment, Career Development, and Career Systems. Modules in Management Series, Science Research Associates, 1984

Corporate Views of the Public Interest: Perceptions of the Forest Products Industry, Auburn House, 1981

Book Chapters
"Creative Resilience and the Mastery of Career Adversity," in M. Peiperl, M. Arthur, R. Goffee, and N. Anand, eds., Career Creativity: Explorations in the Remaking of Work, Oxford Press, June 2002

"Deciphering Executive Failures," in R. Silzer, ed., The 21st Century Executive: Innovative Practices for Building Leadership at the Top, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002

"Heroic Leadership's Greatest Battle: The Defeat of Disappointment versus the Disappointment of Defeat," in Warren Bennis, ed., The Future of Leadership, Jossey-Bass, 2001

Selected Articles
"I See Nothing, I Hear Nothing: Culture, Corruption, and Apathy" (with R. Gandossey), International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, Vol. 2, No. 3, 228-243, 2005

"Good Governance and the Misleading Myths of Bad Metrics," Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 18, No 1, 2004 (Winner best 2005 Best Article Award - Academy of Management)

"Academy of Management Perspective: 'CEO Charisma, Environmental Uncertainty, and Organizational Performance'" (with B. R. Agle, N. Nagarajan, and D. Srinivasan), Academy of Management Journal, March, 2005

"The Changing Role of Education on Managerial Career Attainment" (with A. E. Hurley-Hanson, S. Wally, and S. L. S. Purkiss), Personnel Review, 2005

"An Examination of the Effects of Early and Late Entry on Career Attainment: The Clean Slate Effect?" (with A. Hurley, S. Wally, S. Segrest, and T. Scandura), Personnel Review, Vol. 32, No.2 2003 (Outstanding Research Article of the Year – Emerald Publishing)

"What Makes Great Boards Great," Harvard Business Review, September 2002

"To Your Heart's Content: The Influence of Affective Diversity in Top Management Teams" (with S.G. Barsade, A. Ward, J.J.F. Turner), Administrative Science Quarterly, December 2000

Education
DBA Harvard University
MBA Harvard University
AB Harvard College