Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
| Jeffrey Sonnenfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 1, 1954 Cheltenham, Pennsylvania |
| Institutions | Yale School of Management Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs, Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, founder of Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) |
| Spouse | Clarky Sonnenfeld |
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (born April 1, 1954) is an American academic, Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management (SOM) and Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs. Sonnenfeld is the founder of Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI), a non-profit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance.
Before joining Yale in 1999, 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.
Born in Philadelphia, April 1, 1954, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the son of Burton Sonnenfeld, a men’s clothing retailer, and Rochelle Sonnenfeld, a healthcare planner and community leader, who came to the US as a refugee immigrant from Russian pogroms. Sonnenfeld attended public schools in Cheltenham and Abington townships in suburban Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and was an active school leader. While his summers were spent working in the community as an Eagle Scout counselor, he worked through the year in his parents’ retail clothing store in nearby Hatboro, Pennsylvania. He earned his AB, MBA, and doctorate at Harvard University, and during his undergraduate days, he was President of WHRB, the college radio station, as well as an oarsmen. At age 26, he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School where he taught for 10 years.
As a professor at the Harvard Business School, he was the founding faculty sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women’s Leadership Forum. He published his first two articles in the Harvard Business Review at age 24. In “Why Do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?” he interviewed leaders as they left prison for illegal collusion, to understand their justification for knowingly committing white collar crimes. In “Dealing with an Aging Work force,” he explored the gaps between the changing labor demography and related corporate retirement policies, and subsequently served on the board of the National Council on Aging and the President’s Advisory Council of the AARP.
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