They hail from business schools across the world. They teach and research in virtually every discipline. They are the world’s top 50 business school professors.
The list includes famous superstar professors, such as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel and Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer, as well as faculty little known outside their schools or fields of study, such as operations maven Michael Trick at Carnegie Mellon or finance expert Dana Muir at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Some 12 of the 50 are women, while nine are Indian, including Dartmouth’s Vijay Govindarajan, the innovation guru at the Tuck School, and NYU’s Aswath Damodaran, the self-effacing master of finance at the Stern School.
To find out who’s on the list and to discover more about each professor, see the table below and click on each professor’s name.
THE WORLD’S 50 BEST BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSORS
| Professor | School | Expertise | If Not A Teacher? |
| Jennifer Aaker | Stanford | Marketing | Oncologist |
| Sridhar Balasubramanian | UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | Marketing | Pulp Fiction Writer |
| Shiomo Benartzi | UCLA (Anderson) | Finance | House Designer |
| Utpal Bhattacharya | Indiana (Kelley) | Finance | Indie Movie Director |
| Candida Brush | Babson College | Entrepreneurship | Pro Golfer |
| Raymond Burke | Indiana (Kelley) | Marketing | Open A Retail Store |
| Charles Calomiris | Columbia | Finance | Musician |
| Jennifer Chapman | Berkeley (Haas) | Management | Biologist |
| Bhagwan Chowdhry | UCLA (Anderson) | Finance | Conversationalist |
| Clayton Christensen | Harvard | Innovation | Doing It |
| Aswath Damodaran | New York (Stern) | Finance | Yankee Shortstop |
| Thomas Davenport | Babson College | Management | VC |
| Antonio Davila | IESE | Entrepreneurship | Journalist |
| Daniel Diermeier | Northwestern (Kellogg) | Management | Film Director |
| Greg Fairchild | Virginia (Darden) | Entrepreneurship | Chef |
| Scott Galloway | New York (Stern) | Marketing | Self-Help Guru |
| Adam Galinsky | Columbia | Management | Political Advisor |
| Gonzalo Garland | IE Business School | Economics | Airline Pilot |
| Pankaj Ghemawat | IESE | Management | Writer |
| Austan Goolsbee | Chicago (Booth) | Economics | Voice Over For Car Commercials |
| Vijay Govindarajan | Dartmouth (Tuck) | Innovation | Doing It |
| Lynda Gratton | London | Management | Writer |
| Andrew Hoffman | Michigan (Ross) | Management | Building Houses |
| Dwight Jaffee | Berkeley (Haas) | Finance | Doing It |
| Simon Johnson | MIT (Sloan) | Economics | Mountain Rescue |
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