
PRESENTING THE 40-UNDER-40 MBA PROFESSORS OF 2023
Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored 440 up-and-coming star MBA professors as part of our popular 40-Under-40 honor roll. You can see past winners by clicking the year below:
2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2011
Nominations will open for the 2024 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 2023 class of 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors is presented below. Each profile reveals a glimpse behind the curtain of life as an MBA professor – the anxieties, triumphs, and motivations. We encourage you to read each one 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.
Professor |
School |
Age |
Subject(s) |
Mason Ameri |
Rutgers Business School |
37 |
Negotiations |
Ali Aouad |
London Business School |
33 |
Data Analytics |
Joshua Becker |
UCL School of Management, University College London |
37 |
Negotiations & Leadership
|
Willy Bolander |
Texas A&M University, College of Engineering |
39 |
|
Andrew Brodsky |
McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin |
35 |
Negotiation |
Fabienne T. Cadet |
H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Nova Southeastern University |
36 |
Marketing |
Lindsey D. Cameron |
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
39 |
|
Yixing Chen |
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame |
32 |
|
Marina Cooley |
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School |
39 |
Marketing |
Yao Cui |
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University |
36 |
|
Shai Davidai |
Columbia Business School |
39 |
Negotiations |
Kate Eaton |
W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University |
39 |
Marketing |
Anastassia Fedyk |
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business |
34 |
Finance |
Namrata Goyal |
Esade Business School |
36 |
Leadershiop |
Sabrina T. Howell |
NYU Stern School of Business |
37 |
FinTech |
Kejia Hu |
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, Oxford University Said Business School |
34 |
|
Nilam Kaushik |
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
39 |
|
Kristopher Keller |
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |
34 |
Marketing |
J. Daniel Kim |
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
34 |
Entrepeneurship |
Tami Kim |
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia |
35 |
Marketing |
Gorgi Krlev |
ESCP Business School |
38 |
Sustainability |
Harris Kyriakou |
ESSEC Business School |
39 |
AI & Analytics |
Chak Fu Lam |
City University of Hong Kong |
39 |
Organizational Behavior & Leadership
|
Alexander A. Lebedev |
Singapore Academy of Corporate Management |
38 |
|
Szu-Han (Joanna) Lin |
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia |
35 |
|
Margaret Luciano |
Smeal College of Business, Penn State University |
35 |
Team Processes and Performance
|
Daniel McCarthy |
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School |
39 |
Customer Lifetime Valuation
|
Albert Kwame Mensah |
HEC Paris |
35 |
Accounting |
Aidin Namin |
Loyola Marymount University College of Business Administration |
39 |
|
Jan Sebastian Nimczik |
ESMT Berlin |
39 |
|
Nailya Ordabayeva |
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College |
39 |
Marketing |
Ricardo Perez-Truglia |
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business |
39 |
Microeconomics |
Hatim A. Rahman |
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
35 |
|
Franklin Shaddy |
UCLA Anderson School of Management |
35 |
|
Anna Stansbury |
MIT Sloan School of Management |
31 |
Economics |
David Stillwell |
Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge |
37 |
|
David Tan |
Foster School of Business, University of Washington |
38 |
|
Ella F. Washington |
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University |
34 |
DEI |
Dacheng Xiu |
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
39 |
FinTech & AI |
Xu Zhang |
London Business School |
33 |
Marketing |