Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is a finance professor at London Business School whose work focuses on corporate purpose, sustainable business, and evidence-based reasoning. He is the author of Grow the Pie and May Contain Lies, books that have influenced discussions of responsible capitalism and critical thinking in business and public debate.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Alex Edmans is a British finance scholar whose career has moved between academia, markets, and public debate. He studied Economics and Management at Oxford, spent two years at Morgan Stanley in London and New York, and then completed a PhD in finance at MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar. After joining Wharton in 2007 and receiving tenure in 2013, he moved to London Business School, where he became Professor of Finance and developed a research portfolio spanning corporate finance, responsible business, and behavioural finance. ((https://alexedmans.com/about/biography/))
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"Alex Edmans's superb book makes the case, compellingly and comprehensively, for a radical rethink of how companies operate"
— Andy Haldane
"Alex Edmans provides robust evidence against the claim that businesses must choose between shareholder value and social responsibility"
— Onora O'Neill
"Alex Edmans has produced rigorous evidence that the choice between people and profits is a false dichotomy"
— Adam Grant
"Alex Edmans, in his passionate advocacy of Pieconomics, challenges us all to adopt a mindset and unity of purpose"
— Will Hutton
"Alex Edmans has done a great service to society by showing that business doesn't have to be a zero-sum game"
— Andrew Lo
"Alex Edmans is such a crisp, sharp, salutary voice - and a great guide to the bullsh*t of the modern world"
— Rory Stewart
"In this compelling book, Alex Edmans argues that there is indeed a problem with corporate behaviour"
— Oliver Hart
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