For six years, Divya Narendra has been in a fiery legal dispute with Zuckerberg, alleging that he stole his concept for ConnectU and capitalized off of it with a little known social networking site called […]

The year was 1853 when Robert Portner emigrated from Germany and settled in New York City. At 16 years of age, he began obtaining first-hand business experience; working his way up the economic ladder from a […]

Nancy F. Koehn Harvard Business School Education: Harvard University, PhD, European History Harvard University, MA, European History Harvard Kennedy School, MPP Stanford University, BA At Harvard Business School Since: 1991 Before Harvard Business School: Member of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences first as a graduate…[Read more]

Raghuram Rajan Booth School of Business Claim to Fame: Financial Economist Age: 48 Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Indian Institute of Management, MBA At Booth Since: 1991 Raghuram Rajan’s list of distinguished appointments easily demonstrates his clout as a financial economist. Exhibit A: He is the current economic…[Read more]

Clayton Christensen Harvard Business School Claim to Fame: Disruptive Innovation Age: 59 Education: Harvard Business School, DBA Harvard Business School, MBA Oxford University, MPhil Brigham Young University, BA At HBS Since : 1992 Before HBS : Chairman and president of CPS Technologies (CPS), a firm co-founded with several…[Read more]

As Memorial Day weekend gets underway and the unofficial start to summer begins, sunshine and sandy beaches are the last thing on the mind of Michael Kijewski. Like so many other graduate business students, Kijewski, who just completed his first year at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has his mind on his MBA. For [...]

George Clooney, step aside. You’re just a piker next to  Harsh Gupta , the quintessential “Up in the Air” road warrior (referring to the 2009 movie starring Clooney, who plays a consultant who travels over 300 days a year on business). Every other weekend, Gupta is flying 7,261 miles through ten time zones from Dubai to Chicago simply [...]

Raymond Fisman Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise Director, Social Enterprise Program Age: 39 Institution: Columbia Business School Hometown: London, Ontario Marital Status: Married Children: Erin, 2 years old; Charlie, 3 months Education: Harvard University, PhD, Business Economics McGill University, BA, Economics and Mathematics…[Read more]

Shortly after completing her undergraduate degree at UC-Berkeley, Lauren Miller spent five years working for global tech giant, Google, Inc. Her work with Google landed her in Hyderabad, India where she spent nearly a year helping to expand the company’s highly successful AdWords product. During her time in Hyderabad, she took the initiative to…[Read more]

What do the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, Central Bank of Norway, Bank of Canada, Central Bank of Colombia, Credit Suisse of London, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and World Bank all have in common? Lucio Sarno. At just 39, this finance professor from Cass Business School has been involved in policy advice, [...]

Not many 32-year-olds can say they’ve worked as an adviser to the administration of a U.S. president, but Aaron Chatterji can say just that. The strategy professor is currently on leave from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business at the White House Council of Economic Advisers where he is a Senior Economist working on entrepreneurship [...]

It takes a lot of courage to stand in front of a group of MBAs everyday teaching them how to become better managers. It takes even more zeal to stand in front of the class and rap about it. Tim Vogus is not your typical professor. Sure, he conducts valuable research studies that address widespread [...]

At just 29 years of age, Professor Adam Grant of the Wharton School has been teaching for seven years and has held academic positions at Harvard, Michigan, and UNC-Chapel Hill. His drive as a professor at one of the world’s top business schools is to use his knowledge, research, and connections to make a difference [...]

Experiential learning is what makes the difference for 33-year-old professor Derek Rucker. He brings advertising to life at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management with hands-on curricula that evoke student participation and enthusiasm. The professor, who is also director of Kellogg’s Center for Global Marketing Practices, goes the distance…[Read more]

What does it take to be a great teacher of business? Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren once mused that “the art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” That’s an art that our 40 top business school professors under the age of 40 share with each other. They draw students into often esoteric [...]

For MBA hopefuls, the first task in pursuing a graduate business degree has traditionally been to conquer the Graduate Management Admissions Test. For nearly half a century, the GMAT has been the gold standard predictor of an applicant’s ability to survive the rigor of graduate business education. But now, many business schools are pondering whether [...]

Radha Gopalan Assistant Professor of Finance Age: 37 Institution: Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School Courses: Advanced Corporate Finance-Valuation Education: University of Michigan, PhD, Finance Indian Institute of Management, MBA Annamalai University, BE, Chemical Engineering At Olin Since: 2006 Before Olin: University…[Read more]

Markus Baer Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior Age: 37 Institution: Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School Marital Status: Married Children: One Daughter Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD, Organizational Behavior University of Giessen, MA, Psychology University of Giessen, BA, Psychology…[Read more]

Terry Taylor Associate Professor, Operations and Information Technology Management Age: 38 Institution: UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Education: Stanford University, PhD, Management Science & Engineering Stanford University, BS, Industrial Engineering Courses: Operations Management At Haas Since: 2007 Before Haas: Columbia Business…[Read more]