Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Lester Crown
Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management
where he has taught since 1999. Before joining Yale, he taught for ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School
and nine years as a professor at Emory University
's Goizueta Business School
.
Sonnenfeld is the founder of Chief Executive Leadership Institute, the world's first "CEO College" which was created in 1989 when he migrated to Emory University
. He pioneered the program as a prototype at the Harvard Business School
in 1987 and 1988. In 2000, this institute moved to Yale University
where it presently resides. Regular participants in this program include such opinion leaders as Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase; James McNerney, CEO of Boeing; Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon; Stephen Schwarzman CEO of the Blackstone Group; financier Wilbur Ross; Jeffrey Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner; Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox; Jim Kelly, former CEO of UPS; Reuben Mark, former CEO of Colgate-Palmolive; Group, Richard Teerlink, former CEO of Harley-Davidson; Katharine Graham, the former CEO of The Washington Post Company; Ed Rust, CEO of State Farm; Louis Gerstner Former CEO of IBM; Brad Anderson of Best Buy; legendary founders as: Bernard Marcus of The Home Depot; David Neeleman of Jet Blue; Marvin Bower of McKinsey & Co; Bruce Henderson of The Boston Consulting Group; Kemmons Wilson of Holiday Inns; William McGowan, of MCI; William Rosenberg of Dunkin Donuts; Sumner Redstone of Viacom; Donald Trump; Martha Steward of Martha Stewart Omnimedia; and Michael Dell of Dell Computer. Other notable historic figures who have attended include: Albert H. Gordon of Kidder Peabody, fomer SEC Chairman William Donaldson; IBM's Thomas Watson Jr., Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association,along with three former US presidents and many U.S. cabinet officials and legislators.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full professor at Emory's Goizueta Business School
and Harvard Business School, and is now founder and president of the Yale 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 roughly 100 scholarly articles which appeared in the leading academic journals in management such as: Administrative Sciences Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal
, The Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior
, Social Forces
, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management
. He has served on the board of editors of seven top scholarly journals and is the founding President of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management. He twice received awards from the Academy of Management
for Outstanding Research on Social Issues, the Outstanding Educator Award from Emory University; and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Executive Education by the American Association for Training and Development. Sonnenfeld was the youngest-serving member of the Board Governors of the Academy of Management – the scholarly society of management researchers, and the youngest member of the board of directors of the National Association of Retired Persons. He has also served on several public company boards of directors. Among his seven books are two award-winning classics: The Hero's Farewell:What Happens When CEOs Retire (Oxford University Press, 1989); and Firing Back: How Great Leaders Overcome Adversity (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) with Emory alumnus Andrew Ward.
Sonnenfeld gained some notoriety when, in late 1997, after being passed over as dean of the Goizeuta Business School, he accepted the same position at nearby Georgia Tech. Shortly before leaving Emory, he was threatened with arrest for vandalizing the Goizeuta building; William Chace, Emory's president, notified Georgia Tech, which withdrew its offer. Videotape showing Sonnenfeld walking down a hall inside the Goizeuta building and kicking a wall was shown on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. In 2000, Sonnenfeld and Emory settled out of court. Under oath, President Chace testified that the videotape was inconclusive regarding whether or not it showed Sonnenfeld actively vandalizing school property.
His work is regularly cited by the general media such as: Fortune
, Business Week, Forbes
, The Wall Street Journal
, The New York Times
, the Financial Times
; The Economist
; Bloomberg
; Newsweek
, Time
, The Washington Post
, CBS (60 Minutes
), NBC (The Today Show
), ABC (Nightline
, Good Morning America
), CNN
, and CNBC
. He presently serves as a staff commentator for CNBC. 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
. He has been invited by the New York Stock Exchange
to ring the "Opening Bell," and has twice been invited by the NASDAQ OMX
stock market to ring the "Opening Bell" to start the trading day of the world's largest exchanges.
Lester Crown
Lester Crown is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown , who created Material Service with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. He has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982...
Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management
Yale School of Management
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
where he has taught since 1999. Before joining Yale, he taught for ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
and nine years as a professor at Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
's Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...
.
Sonnenfeld is the founder of Chief Executive Leadership Institute, the world's first "CEO College" which was created in 1989 when he migrated to Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
. He pioneered the program as a prototype at the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
in 1987 and 1988. In 2000, this institute moved to Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
where it presently resides. Regular participants in this program include such opinion leaders as Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase; James McNerney, CEO of Boeing; Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon; Stephen Schwarzman CEO of the Blackstone Group; financier Wilbur Ross; Jeffrey Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner; Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox; Jim Kelly, former CEO of UPS; Reuben Mark, former CEO of Colgate-Palmolive; Group, Richard Teerlink, former CEO of Harley-Davidson; Katharine Graham, the former CEO of The Washington Post Company; Ed Rust, CEO of State Farm; Louis Gerstner Former CEO of IBM; Brad Anderson of Best Buy; legendary founders as: Bernard Marcus of The Home Depot; David Neeleman of Jet Blue; Marvin Bower of McKinsey & Co; Bruce Henderson of The Boston Consulting Group; Kemmons Wilson of Holiday Inns; William McGowan, of MCI; William Rosenberg of Dunkin Donuts; Sumner Redstone of Viacom; Donald Trump; Martha Steward of Martha Stewart Omnimedia; and Michael Dell of Dell Computer. Other notable historic figures who have attended include: Albert H. Gordon of Kidder Peabody, fomer SEC Chairman William Donaldson; IBM's Thomas Watson Jr., Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association,along with three former US presidents and many U.S. cabinet officials and legislators.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full professor at Emory's Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...
and Harvard Business School, and is now founder and president of the Yale 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 roughly 100 scholarly articles which appeared in the leading academic journals in management such as: Administrative Sciences Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Journal
The Academy of Management Journal a is peer-reviewed academic journal on management. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2009 impact factor is 6.483, ranking it second in the categories "Management" and "Business" .- External links :*...
, The Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior
Journal of Organizational Behavior
The Journal of Organizational Behavior is a peer-reviewed academic journal published eight times per year by John Wiley & Sons. The journal publishes empirical reports and theoretical reviews of research in the field of organizational behavior. It was first published in 1980 as the Journal of...
, Social Forces
Social Forces
Social Forces is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by the University of North Carolina Press...
, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management
Human resource management
Human Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...
. He has served on the board of editors of seven top scholarly journals and is the founding President of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management. He twice received awards from the Academy of Management
Academy of Management
The Academy of Management is a professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. The Academy of Management was established in 1936...
for Outstanding Research on Social Issues, the Outstanding Educator Award from Emory University; and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Executive Education by the American Association for Training and Development. Sonnenfeld was the youngest-serving member of the Board Governors of the Academy of Management – the scholarly society of management researchers, and the youngest member of the board of directors of the National Association of Retired Persons. He has also served on several public company boards of directors. Among his seven books are two award-winning classics: The Hero's Farewell:What Happens When CEOs Retire (Oxford University Press, 1989); and Firing Back: How Great Leaders Overcome Adversity (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) with Emory alumnus Andrew Ward.
Sonnenfeld gained some notoriety when, in late 1997, after being passed over as dean of the Goizeuta Business School, he accepted the same position at nearby Georgia Tech. Shortly before leaving Emory, he was threatened with arrest for vandalizing the Goizeuta building; William Chace, Emory's president, notified Georgia Tech, which withdrew its offer. Videotape showing Sonnenfeld walking down a hall inside the Goizeuta building and kicking a wall was shown on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. In 2000, Sonnenfeld and Emory settled out of court. Under oath, President Chace testified that the videotape was inconclusive regarding whether or not it showed Sonnenfeld actively vandalizing school property.
His work is regularly cited by the general media such as: Fortune
Fortune (magazine)
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, Business Week, Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
; The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
; Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
; Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, CBS (60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
), NBC (The Today Show
The Today Show
Today is an iconic American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world. The show is also the fourth-longest running American television series...
), ABC (Nightline
Nightline
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, Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
), CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, and CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
. He presently serves as a staff commentator for CNBC. 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
Yale School of Management
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
. He has been invited by the New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
to ring the "Opening Bell," and has twice been invited by the NASDAQ OMX
NASDAQ OMX Group
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is a United States public company that owns and operates the NASDAQ stock market and eight European stock exchanges in Armenia plus the Nordic and Baltic regions under the OMX banner...
stock market to ring the "Opening Bell" to start the trading day of the world's largest exchanges.