The World's Best Business School Professors

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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