Frank E. Buck Professor of Management
Hank McKinnell - Pfizer Inc Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research   

Professor Charles O'Reilly's research includes studies of leadership, organizational culture and demography, the management of human resources, and the impact of change and innovation on firms.  He has published widely in his field, including the books Winning Through Innovation: a Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal with M. Tushman (Harvard Business School Press, 2002) and Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People with J. Pfeffer (Harvard Business School Press, 2000).  His recent work with Mike Tushman, Ambidextrous Organizations: Resolving the Innovator's Dilemma, investigates how managers can design organizations that can generate streams of innovation and deal with disruptive technological change. 

Charles A. O'Reilly III is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Management and the Hank McKinnell-Pfizer Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.  He began his education in 1965 at the University of El Paso Texas where he received his BS in Chemistry.  In 1971 he received his MBA in Information Systems, from the University of California, Berkeley where he also received his PhD in Organizational Behavior in 1975.  He began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1976-80.  He later became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1980-92.  In 1993 he joined Stanford University where he has been since, and has received many awards, including the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. He was also the Henry Ford Carroll Professor at the Harvard Business School in 1999-2000.

Professor O'Reilly has consulted for a variety of public and private firms in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia.  He also has developed, directed, and taught in executive programmes for senior managers in innovation, technology, leadership, change, and human resources.

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