Chip Heath

Chip Heath is an American academic. He is the Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the co-author of several books.

Chip Heath
Alma materTexas A&M University
Stanford University
OccupationAcademic
EmployerStanford Graduate School of Business
RelativesDan Heath (brother)

Early life

Heath graduated from Texas A&M University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering. He subsequently earned a PhD in psychology from Stanford University.[1]

Career

Heath taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.[1] Heath is a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[1] He has taught courses on organizational behavior, negotiation, international strategy, and social entrepreneurship.[1]

With his brother Dan, Heath has co-authored four bestselling books, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007),[2] Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (2010),[3] Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (2013),[4] and The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (2017).[5] He also helped James G. March write the business book A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen (1994).[6]

Made to Stick was named "Best Business Book of the Year", was on the BusinessWeek bestseller list for 24 months, and has been translated into at least 25 languages.[7] This book was co-written with his brother, Dan Heath.[8]

'Switch' stayed in the New York Times Best Seller List for 47 weeks.[9]


  1. "Chip Heath". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  2. Heath, Chip; Heath, Dan (2007). Made to stick: why some ideas survive and others die (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1400064281. OCLC 68786839.
  3. Heath, Chip; Heath, Dan (2010). Switch: how to change things when change is hard (1st ed.). New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 9780385528757. OCLC 368020682.
  4. Heath, Chip; Heath, Dan (2013). Decisive: how to make better choices in life and work (1st ed.). New York: Crown Business. ISBN 9780307956392. OCLC 798613602.
  5. Heath, Chip; Heath, Dan (2017). The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (1st ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501147760. OCLC 1003765538.
  6. March, James G.; Heath, Chip (1994). A primer on decision making: how decisions happen. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0029200350. OCLC 29845279.
  7. "Faculty Books: Made to Stick". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  8. "Chip & Dan Heath - NYT bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch". Heath Brothers. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  9. "Switch".
  • Grist- Anonymous (March 13, 2007) "An interview with author Chip Heath about making environmental messages sticky" interview with Chip Heath, at Grist
  • Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk, (August 3, 2006) "Battle Cry Against Power Tripping" interview with Chip Heath, at Brazen Careerist
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