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

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full tenured professor at Emory's Goizueta Business School for a decade and a professor at the Harvard Business School for a decade, and 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, as well as founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a nonprofit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance.

Professor Sonnenfeld's related research has been published in 100 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 eight books, including The Hero's Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession, and another best seller, Firing Back, a study on leadership resilience in the face of adversity.

At the same time, his work is regularly cited by the general media in such outlets as: BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, the Economist, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, CBS (60 Minutes), NBC (the Today Show), ABC (Nightline, Good Morning America), CNN, and Fox News, as well as PBS, where he is a regular commentator, and CNBC, where he is a regular commentator. BusinessWeek listed Sonnenfeld as one of the world’s 10 most influential business school professors and Directorship magazine has listed him among the 100 most influential figures in corporate governance. He is the first academician to have rung the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

Consultancies
AARP
Aetna
BearingPoint
Booz Allen Hamilton
Caremark Rx
Carlyle Group
CNF Transport
DHL
DuPont
Egon Zehnder
General Electric
Heidrick & Struggles
HSBC
Hyatt Hotels
Hewitt Associates
IBM
J.P. Morgan Chase
Korn/Ferry
Marsh & McClennon
Marriott
McKinsey
Miscrosoft
National Council on Aging
Norwegian Cruise Lines
Russell Reynolds Associates
Spencer Stuart
Sterling Partners
Towers Perrin
Sun Trust Banks
United Parcel Service
Yahoo!

Recent Achievements and Honors
Business Week’s Ten Most Influential Business School Professors
Rang Opening Bell of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, 2008, 2006
Rang Opening Bell of the New York Stock Exchange
Directorship Magazine’s 100 most Influential Figures in Corporate Governance – 2008, 2007
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
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
"Improving the Performance of Top Management Teams," MIT Sloan Management Review, (Spring, 2007), Vol. 48, no. 3, 2007.

"Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters" (with Andrew Ward), Harvard Business Review, January, 2007.

"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

Related Links

The Chief Executive Leadership Institute "The Liberating Effect of Failure," Fortune magazine