Robert I. Sutton

Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School.  He is co-founder of the Center for Work, Technology and the Stanford, which he co-directed from 1996 to 2006.  Sutton is also co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the new Hasso Planter Institute of Design, a multi-disciplinary program at Stanford that teaches and spreads "design thinking."

He has written over 125 thought leading articles, and written several books. Sutton's newest book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't (Warner Business Books, 2007), and has been listed as a bestseller by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com (as the #1 non-fiction book), has been on the BusinessWeek bestseller list for over six months.

Sutton's blog is Work Matters and can be found at www.bobsutton.net.  He and Jeffrey Pfeffer maintain a website that provides information and a place for people to exchange ideas about evidence-based management at www.evidence-basedmanagement.com.

Sutton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983.  He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly publications, and as an editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly and Research in Organizational Behavior. Sutton was also named as one of 10 "B-School All-Stars" by BusinessWeek in 2007, which they described as "professors who are influencing contemporary business thinking far beyond academia."