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Dr William Barnett

Visiting Fellow

Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organisations

BA, PhD, California Berkeley

William P. Barnett is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organisations at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, where he is Chair of the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. Barnett is the Faculty Director of the Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability and Faculty Director of the Stanford Executive Program. He is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute on the Environment. His research appears in numerous published articles and books.
Barnett received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. His research looks at the evolution of industries and organisations over time. Currently, Barnett is studying humanity’s response to the challenge of environmental sustainability, featuring organisational innovations and adaptations at research sites in various parts of the world.