William P. Barnett is Chair of the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prof. Barnett is the Faculty Director of the Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability, and the Faculty Director of the Stanford Executive Program. He is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute on the Environment.
Prof. Barnett received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. His research looks at organizational change, investigating the evolution of industries and organizations over time. Currently, Barnett is studying humanity’s response to the challenge of environmental sustainability, including how we collectively understand this challenge, and how organizations are engaging the challenge in different ways all over the world. These findings are documented in his forthcoming book, Organizational Strategies for Environmental Sustainability.
