Eugene J. Webb; Stanford Business School Professor

Eugene J. Webb, 61, a Stanford Business School professor who helped develop research and teaching of organizational behavior. In more than 25 years at Stanford, Webb served as associate dean of the Graduate School of Business, chairman of the university’s Faculty Senate, and as a faculty sponsor for Stanford’s program in Washington. Webb taught crisis management and philanthropy and was the founding director of Stanford’s Public Management Program, which introduced the study of the public sector and nonprofit agencies into the management curriculum. His close friend, Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.), called Webb “an uncommonly civil man with great research skills and practical insight.” Webb’s best-known book was “Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences,” which he wrote while teaching at Northwestern University. On Tuesday in Palo Alto of respiratory disease.