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.
Name |
School |
Age |
Subject(s) |
| Emanuele Colonnelli | Booth School of Business, University of Chicago | 37 |
Emerging Markets Finance & Entrepreneurship
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| Ke Michael Mai | China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) | 39 |
Organizational Behavior
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| Anthony Palomba | Darden School of Business, University of Virginia | 38 |
Storytelling With Data, Media & Entertainment Business
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| Ghassan Paul Yacoub | EDHEC Business School | 39 | AI For Business |
| Rita Mota | Esade Business School | 39 |
Ethics & Social Responsibility
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| Ravi S. Kudesia | Fox School of Business, Temple University | 38 | Negotiations |
| Voni Pamphile | George Washington University | 39 |
Business Ethics & Public Policy, Strategic Negotiations
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| Suhas A. Sridharan | Goizueta Business School, Emory University | 38 | Accounting |
| Ambar La Forgia | Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley | 36 |
Leadership & Management
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| Michael Lingzhi Li | Harvard Business School | 28 |
Technology & Operations Management
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| Weiming Zhu | HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong | 36 | Data Analytics |
| Emmanouil Avgerinos | IE Business School | 39 | Data Analytics |
| Enric Junqué de Fortuny | IESE Business School | 38 |
AI, Data Science/Analytics
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| Christian Hampel | Imperial Business School | 36 |
Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation
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| Elena Fumagalli | INCAE Business School | 38 |
Consumer Behavior, Managing People & Organizations
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| Dimitrije Ruzic | INSEAD | 36 |
Macroeconomics
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| Madeleine Rauch | Judge Business School, University of Cambridge | 36 |
International Business
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| Kristoph Kleiner | Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | 38 | Fintech |
| Sébastien Martin | Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | 33 |
AI, Operations Management
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| Aymeric Bellon | Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 34 | Finance |
| Hayley Blunden | Kogod School of Business, American University | 39 |
Organizational Effectiveness
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| Richard Hodgett | Leeds University Business School | 39 |
Business Analytics & Decision Sciences
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| Jean Pauphilet | London Business School | 32 |
Business Analytics
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| Arianna Marchetti | London Business School | 37 | Strategy |
| Şafak Yücel | McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University | 37 |
Sustainable Energy & Technology
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| Ignacio Rios | Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas | 36 |
Spreadsheet Modeling
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| Ryan Krause | Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University | 38 | Strategy |
| Sydney Scott | Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis | 34 | Marketing |
| Anthony Salerno | Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University | 38 | Marketing |
| Laurina Zhang | Questrom School of Business, Boston University | 39 | Strategy |
| Samantha Keppler | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | 39 |
Business Statistics
|
| Kristen Duke | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | 33 | Marketing |
| Negin (Nikki) Golrezaei | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 39 |
Digital Platforms, Operations Management
|
| Aleksander A. Aleszczyk | Stern School of Business, New York University | 34 | Accounting |
| Francesco Rosati | Technical University of Denmark | 39 |
Sustainable Business Innovation
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| Samir Nurmohamed | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | 39 |
Leadership; Power & Politics
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| Raghav Singal | Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College | 33 | Data Analytics |
| Tyler Muir | UCLA Anderson School of Management | 39 | Finance |
| Tom Taiyi Yan | University College London School of Management | 33 |
Global Leadership
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| Irina Surdu-Nardella | Warwick Business School | 36 |
International Business
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