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.

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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!

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