Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization and an active researcher in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He is also a Fellow at IDEO Product Development. Professor Sutton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. He has also taught at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Business School and was a Fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during the 1986-87 and 1994-95 academic years.

Professor Sutton has received honors including the award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, the McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepeneurship Pedagogy Award, and the McCullough Faculty Scholar Chair from the Stanford Engineering School. He has served as an editor and on the editorial board member of numerous scholarly publications, and currently serves as Co-Editor of Research in Organizational Behavior. He has published over sixty articles and chapters in scholarly and applied publications. His current research focuses on the links (and gaps) between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, wisdom in organizational life, and group and organizational performance.