PRESENTING THE 40-UNDER-40 MBA PROFESSORS OF 2024
Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored 480 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:
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2011
Nominations will open for the 2025 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 2024 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.
Name |
School |
Age |
Subject(s) |
| Chris Smith | Alliance Manchester Business School | 37 | Operations & Supply Chain |
| Nada Hashmi | Babson College | Business Analytics | |
| Luxi Shen | CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | 38 | Marketing |
| Gaurav Chiplunkar | Darden School of Business, University of Virginia | 37 | Economics |
| Inge De Clippeleer | EDHEC Business School | 38 | Leadership |
| Ioannis Evangelidis | ESADE Business School | 39 | Data Analytics |
| Telesilla Olympia Kotsi | Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University | 37 | Data Analytics |
| Tiona Zuzul | Harvard Business School | 39 | Strategy |
| Federica De Stefano | HEC Paris | 36 | Management & Human Resources |
| Konstantina Valogianni | IE Business School | 36 | AI & Machine Learning |
| Malika | Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore | 36 | Marketing |
| Ivana Naumovska | INSEAD | 38 | Entrepreneurship |
| Javier Gonzalez Nuñez | Ipade Business School | 33 | Entrepreneurship |
| Asa Palley | Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | 37 | Operations & Decision Technologies |
| Erik Gonzalez-Mulé | Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | 38 | Leadership |
| Sean Higgins | Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | 35 | Finance |
| Lauren Eskreis-Winkler | Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | 38 | Behavioral Science |
| Marcel Olbert | London Business School | 33 | Accounting |
| Lucille Headrick | Lucas College and Graduate School of Business, San Jose State University | 32 | Management & Human Resources |
| Chiara Trombini | Luiss Business School | 35 | Leadership |
| Jermain Kaminski | Maastricht University School of Business and Economics | 38 | Entrepreneurship |
| Gourab Mukherjee | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | 39 | Data Science |
| Rahul Bhui | MIT Sloan School of Management | 34 | Marketing |
| Jacquelyn Pless | MIT Sloan School of Management | 36 | Innovation and Energy Economics |
| Zhengyuan Zhou | NYU Stern School of Business | 33 | Data Analytics |
| Jennifer N. Wynn | NYU Stern School of Business | 39 | Communication |
| Erik Olson | Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University | 34 | Accounting |
| Andrew Wu | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | 38 | FinTech & AI |
| Jun Li | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | 39 | Operations Management |
| Agni Orfanoudaki | Saïd Business School, University of Oxford | 29 | Operations & Machine Learning |
| Emily N. Garbinsky | Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | 35 | Marketing |
| Tiffany D. Johnson | Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology | 39 | Work, Equity, & Wellness |
| Sunkee Lee | Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University | 39 | Strategy |
| Michael R. Parke | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | 38 | Teamwork & Leadership |
| Corinne Low | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | 39 | Economics |
| Mark DesJardine | Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College | 37 | Social Entrepreneurship |
| Solène Delecourt | UC Berkeley Haas School of Business | 31 | Negotiations |
| Ersin Körpeoğlu | UCL School of Management, University College London | 39 | New Product Development |
| Jana Gallus | UCLA Anderson School of Management | 37 | Economics |
| Oliver Hauser | University of Exeter Business School | 35 | Economics |
