Bill Taylor (businessman)

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Bill Taylor
Citizenship American
Alma mater Princeton University (BA)
MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA)
OccupationCo-founder, Fast Company

William C. Taylor is co-founder and editor of Fast Company Magazine, with Alan Webber. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College and wrote a column in the Money section of The Guardian newspaper. [1]

Taylor received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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References

  1. "On balance | Money | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-08-28.