| Charles A. O'Reilly III | |
| Alma Mater: | University of Texas at El Paso University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business |
| Employer: | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Occupation: | Academic |
Charles A. O'Reilly III is an American academic. He is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the co-author of three books and a number of case studies as well as the co-editor of a fourth book.
Charles A. O'Reilly III graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry in 1965.[1] He earned an MBA in information systems in 1971 and a PhD in organizational behavior and industrial relations from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
O'Reilly was an assistant professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management from 1976 to 1978.[1] He taught at the Haas School of Business from 1979 to 1993, where he became a tenured professor.[1] Since 1993, he has been the Frank E. Buck Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[1]
O'Reilly is the co-author of three books and the co-editor of a fourth book.[1] He has published case studies about Cisco Systems and IBM.[2] His first book, The Management of Organizations: Strategies, Tactics, Analyses, was published in 1989. In 1997, he published his second book, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Managing Organizational Change and Renewal; the book highlights the importance of teamwork to foster innovation.[3] His third book, Hidden Value: How Companies Get Extraordinary Results With Ordinary People, was published in 2000.[4] His fourth book, Lead and Disrupt: How To Solve the Innovator's Dilemma, was published in 2016.