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What’s Wrong With Big Banks? Too Many Lost Customers
Bloomberg/Businessweek

Why Does Apple Care About Its Share Price?
Bloomberg/Businessweek

The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies
Bloomberg/Businessweek

Ray Lane, Hewlett-Packard, and the State of Corporate Governance
Bloomberg/Businessweek

Don’t Blame the Internet for the Post Office Blues
Bloomberg/Businessweek

Getting the Record Straight on Health Care Reform
Huffington Post

How an outsider institutes change
Financial Times

S&P Lawsuit: Lessons From a Massive Screw-up
Inc.

Recent Scholarly Work

“Power Play,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2010 Download

“Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor,” Academy of Management Perpectives, February 2010 Download

“How and Why Theories Matter: A Comment on Felin and Foss (2009),”Organization Science, May-June 2009 Download

“When is Happiness About How Much You Earn? The Effect of Hourly Payment on the Money Happiness Connection,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 2009 Download

Latest Rational Rants Blog

What’s Wrong With Big Banks? Too Many Lost Customers

As the soap opera about whether Jamie Dimon will or will not continue to hold the chairman’s role at JPMorgan Chase continues, and while there is ongoing discussion of whether banks are too big to fail, what’s missing from the conversation is … Read full post...

Why Does Apple Care About Its Share Price?

Beset by critics and bedeviled by a declining stock price, Tim Cook, the company’s beleaguered chief executive, announced a big stock buyback and a substantial dividend increase. The market did not, however, respond by pushing up Apple’s stock … Read full post...

Latest Book

POWER

"Brimming with frank, realistic insights on paths to the top, this book offers unexpected—and aggressive—directions on how to advance and flourish in an ever-more competitive workplace."
–Publishers Weekly

“Jeff Pfeffer is of immense service to the world with his work, blending academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensible guide.”
—Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall

Other Books by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Evidence Based Management

When we wrote our book on evidence-based management, Bob Sutton and I developed a website to collect materials to help propel the movement to base decisions on the best data and theory. The site contains course outlines, examples, articles, material on evidence-based movements in many public policy domains, and links to other EBM resources. Visit the EBM site.