Poets&Quants’ World’s Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors Of 2025

DRAFT: Poets&Quants’ World’s Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors Of 2025

PRESENTING THE 40-UNDER-40 MBA PROFESSORS OF 2025

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored 520 up-and-coming star MBA professors as part of our 40-Under-40 honor roll. You can see past winners by clicking the year below:

2024  2023  2022  2021  2020  2019  2018  2017  2016  2015  2014  2011

Nominations will open for the 2026 list next spring. Please keep an eye out at Poets&Quants.com as well as on our various newsletters and social media platforms for the start of our open nomination period.

Our full 2025 class of 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors is presented below. Each winner filled out a P&Q questionnaire we hope reveals some insight into their backgrounds, teaching styles, and research. We asked about their hobbies, favorite music, and why they wanted to become business school professors.

We encourage you to read each profile by clicking the professor’s name. Their answers are quite candid, surprisingly funny, and always insightful.

We congratulate each man and woman on this year’s list. No matter what they study, the courses they teach, or where they work, all are among the most promising young professors training the leaders of tomorrow.

 

2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Management
Age: 39
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship
Age: 37
Title: Assistant Professor of Marketing
Age: 33
Title: Associate Professor of Marketing and Leadership
Age: 38
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: W. Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Associate Professor of Management
Age: 39
Title: Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
Age: 36
Title: Associate Professor in Business Analytics and Decision Sciences
Age: 39
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Assistant Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences
Age: 38
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations
Age: 39
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Associate Professor of Finance
Age: 38
Title: Professor of Strategy and Duncan Faculty Fellow
Age: 38
Title: Associate Professor of Management
Age: 38
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Age: 37
Title: Associate Professor
Age: 39
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Associate Professor of Management
Age: 39
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Age: 38
Title: Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy
Age: 39
George Washington University
Title: Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operation
Age: 32
Title: Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Age: 36
Title: Associate Professor
Age: 39
Technical University of Denmark
Title: Assistant Professor of Economics
Age: 36
Title: Associate Professor of Marketing
Age: 34
Title: Associate Professor of Accounting
Age: 38
Title: Professor of International Business Strategy
Age: 36
Title: Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Age: 33
University College London School of Management
Title: Associate Professor of Operations Management
Age: 37
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Associate Professor in Strategy & Innovation
Age: 39
2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Title: Associate Professor in Innovation and Information Management
Age: 36