Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
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Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

Poets&Quants’ World’s Best 40-Under-40 Graduate Business Professors Of 2026

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on May 17, 2026 | 11 minute read

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PRESENTING THE 40-UNDER-40 MBA PROFESSORS OF 2026 

Since 2011, Poets&Quants has honored 560 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors as part of our 40-Under-40 honor roll. You can see past winners by clicking the year below: 

2025 2024  2023  2022  2021  2020  2019  2018  2017  2016  2015  2014  2011 

Nominations will open next February for the 2027 list. 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 2026 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 educator 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. 

Title: Professor of Business Transformation
Age: 38
Title: Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Age: 37
Title: Assistant Professor
Age: 37
Title: Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management
Age: 30
Title: Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations 
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Management
Age: 38
Title: Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources 
Age: 38
Title: Assistant Professor of Marketing 
Age: 37
Title: Assistant Professor of Marketing
Age: 38
Title: Associate Professor of Finance 
Age: 37
Title: Associate Professor of Operations Management & Grant Thornton Scholar
Age: 38
Title: Ruth and William Morgan Assistant Professor
Age: 39
Title: Associate Professor of Strategy 
Age: 39
Brock University Goodman School of Business
Title: Professor of Professional Practice
Age: 39
Title: Associate Professor of Finance
Age: 38
Title: Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior 
Age: 38
Title: Assistant Professor of Finance
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Age: 39
Title: Assistant Professor of Finance
Age: 30
Title: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Volkswagen Group Junior Chair for Ethics and Diversity in Organizations
Age: 35
Title: Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law
Age: 34
Title: Assistant Professor of Finance 
Age: 35
Title: V. Duane Rath Professor and Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources 
Age: 36
Title: Associate Professor and Director of the Executive MBA 
Age: 38
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
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Title: Associate Professor of Major Programme Management
Age: 38
Title: Assistant Professor of Information Systems 
Age: 38
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad 
Title: Professor of Digital Strategy
Age: 35
Title: Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Age: 35
University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business
Title: Assistant Professor of Economics
Age: 36
Title: Assistant Professor, Strategy
Age: 36
Title: Vice President, Woxsen University & Sir Cary Cooper Professor of Organizational Behaviour
Age: 31
Woxsen University School of Business
Title: Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
Age: 35
Title: Associate Professor of Marketing
Age: 36
Title: Assistant Professor of Finance
Age: 34
Title: Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy
Age: 39
Title: Associate Professor of Operations 
Age: 36
Title: Associate Professor
Age: 36
Title: Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management and Goizueta Foundation Term Chair
Age: 38
Title: Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods
Age: 32

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