Robert I. Sutton is Professor of Management science  at the Stanford Engineering School and researcher in the field of Evidence-based management

Evidence-based management

Evidence-based management is an emerging movement to explicitly use the current, best evidence in management decision-making. Its roots are in evidence-based medicine, a quality movement to apply the scientific method to medical practice....

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He is an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Graduate School of Business

The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...

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Sutton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. He has also taught at the Haas Business School and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during the 1986-87, 1994-95, and 2002-03 academic years.

Publications

• with Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D., is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today's most influential management thinkers...
  
  , The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action (Harvard Business School Press, 2000),
• Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation (The Free Press, 2002)
• with Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D., is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today's most influential management thinkers...
  
  , Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, (Harvard Business School Press, 2006).
• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't (Warner, 2007)
• Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be The Best...And Learn From The Worst (Warner, 2010)

External links

• http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/sutton/index.html
• http://bobsutton.typepad.com/