Rakesh Khurana is an Indian-American educator. He is a professor of sociology at Harvard University,a professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School,and the dean of Harvard College.
Gretchen C. Morgenson is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist notable as longtime writer of the Market Watch column for the Sunday "Money &Business" section of The New York Times. In November,2017,she moved from the Times to The Wall Street Journal.
Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015,during his tenure at the RBI,he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.
Lawrence D. Hite is a hedge fund manager who,along with Ed Seykota,is one of the forefathers of system trading. He is the author of the book,The Rule:How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life—and How You Can Too, which was named a Wall Street Journal,LA Times,and Porchlight Books bestseller.
John Anthony Quelch CBE is a British-American academic and professor. Quelch is the executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan,China. He is the former dean of the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables,Florida from 2017 to 2022.
The getAbstract International Book Award is a bilingual award for nonfiction business-focused books.
Doug Guthrie is an American academic administrator,sociologist,and China scholar. He is currently professor of global leadership and director of China initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at The Arizona State University. He was previously the dean of The George Washington University School of Business,and professor of management and sociology and director of executive education and NYU's Stern School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor of management at the business schools of Columbia,Stanford,Harvard,Emory,and INSEAD and as director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council.
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the Financial Times. It aims to find the book that has "the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues". The award was established in 2005 and is worth £30,000. Beginning in 2010,five short-listed authors each receive £10,000,previously it was £5,000.
Steven George Mandis is an American investor and the founder of Kalamata Capital. He is an adjunct associate professor in finance and economics at Columbia University Business School. Previously,he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and as a senior advisor to McKinsey. He is the author of three books:What Happened to Goldman Sachs:An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences,The Real Madrid Way:How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet,and What Happened to Serie A:The Rise,Fall and Signs of Revival.
Stephen Leeb is a money manager and investment adviser. For more than 45 years he has been guiding investors via newsletters,books,blogs,and appearances on financial news networks including CNN,Fox News,NPR and Bloomberg TV.
Mauro F. Guillén is a Spanish-American sociologist and political economist who is currently the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School. In March 2021,he was named Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School,and a Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge;he returned to Wharton in 2023. Until July 2021,he directed the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research,and was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. His book 2030:How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year.
A state-owned enterpriseof China is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government.
Amy C. Edmondson is an American scholar of leadership,teaming,and organizational learning. She is currently Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School. Edmondson is the author of seven books and more than 75 articles and case studies. She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety,which has helped spawn a large body of academic research in management,healthcare and education over the past 15 years. Her books include "Right Kind of Wrong,the Science of Failing Well",“The Fearless Organization,Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning,Innovation,and Growth”(2018)) and “Teaming:How Organizations Learn,Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy”(2012).
LID Publishing, more commonly referred to as "LID",is a publishing and communications company founded in 1993. Specialising in general business publications for the professional reader LID is headquartered in Madrid and London with satellite offices in Mexico City,Shanghai,New Delhi,New York City,Buenos Aires and Bogotá. LID is a member of The Business Publishers Roundtable.
Soren Marcus Kaplan is an author,consultant,and speaker on the subject of innovation and innovation culture in organizations. He is an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business,founder of the consulting firm InnovationPoint,co-founder of the software company Praxie.com,and is a columnist for the Innovate column of Inc. Magazine.
Michelle Penelope King is a white South African born journalist,writer,women's rights activist and advocate for gender equality. Since December 2019,King has been director of inclusion at Netflix,a department responsible for inclusion and diversity among corporate employees.
Frédéric Godart is a French sociologist and researcher who is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France). His work is on the dynamics of creative industries,and fashion and luxury. He is co-editor-in-chief of Poetics:Journal of Empirical Research on Culture,the Media and the Arts. Godart's 2012 book is called Unveiling Fashion:Business,Culture,and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry.
Alex Edmans is a British academic and economist who is professor of finance at London Business School and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College. He serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing and as a non-executive director of the Investor Forum. He is a Fellow of the British Academy,the Academy of Social Sciences and the Financial Management Association,Director of the American Finance Association,and Vice President of the Western Finance Association.
Lindsay Alexandra Owens is an American economic sociologist and academic who serves as the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative,a Washington,D.C.-based non-profit public policy think tank. Owens is best known for her academic research of economic recessions in the United States and outspoken public commentary of the role that corporate profiteering plays in inflation. She previously served as a fellow at the liberal think tank Roosevelt Institute.
The Art of Choosing:The Decisions We Make Everyday –What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them is a non-fiction book written by Sheena Iyengar,a professor at Columbia Business School known for her research in the field of choice. The book was first published by the imprint Twelve Books of Hachette Book Group in March 2010.
