Our 2016 Honor Roll: The 40 Under 40 Most Outstanding MBA Professors

Morela Hernandez of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business

Among this year’s list, you’ll see that these young professors have reached mindblowing success. They’ve accomplished so much in their brief careers and, to think, they’re just getting started. Yet in many ways they’re just like you and I. There’s no shame in Laura Huang’s game when she tells us she loves rocking out to Miley Cyrus, while Professor Choi at Yale boyishly admits to a years-long crush on a woman whom he thought was way out of his league. Don’t worry, she then went on to become his wife. UCLA’s Jenessa Shapiro can barely contain her excitement about the Gilmore Girls reunion and has her donation ready to give to the next Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign.

They love everything from painting and cycling to hiking and yoga. They enjoy melodies sung by Taylor Swift and Beyonce. They tweet. And they have mentors and other professors whom they look up to for inspiration. Perhaps INSEAD’s Karan Girotra’s hobbies best demonstrate how even the world’s most talented business professors also take solace in the simple things in life. His hobbies are simply good food, good drink, and good friends.

To this we say cheers, and cheers to this year’s 40 outstanding business professors under the age of 40.

The Most Outstanding 40-Under-40 B-School Profs

Source: Poets&Quants