Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Robert Sutton is the Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He is a faculty member in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

A former Professor of Haas Business School, he has been at Stanford since joining in 1983 after completing his PHD at the University of Michigan.

Over the last 20 years he has been developing the simple core message that long-term performance is dependent upon on having a number of good ideas that are subsequently implemented.

A prolific writer, Professor Sutton has authored The Knowing-Doing Gap, Weird Ideas that Work, and HARD FACTS, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, co-authored with Jeffrey Pfeffer.

Professor Sutton teaches in Stanford’s professional education program. He also consults with a number of global blue-chip companies, including Ernst & Young, The Cap, HP, IBM, McDonald's, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Xerox.

He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1986-87, 1994-95 and 2002-03.

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