Contributors
John Psarouthakis
Dr. John Psarouthakis, Executive Editor of www.BusinessThinker.com, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, publisher of www.GavdosPress.com and Founder and former CEO, JP Industries, Inc., a Fortune 500 industrial corporation
Periklis Gogas
Dr. Periklis Gogasis a frequent contributor to The Business Thinker magazine. He is an Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and international Economics, Department of International Economics and Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
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Alexis Papachelas
Mr. Alexis Papachelas is a guest editorial writer to The Business Thinker. He is currently the Executive Editor of the long standing and highly respected daily Greek newspaper “Kathimerini”.
Nikos Konstandaras
Mr. Nikos Konstandaras is managing editor and a columnist of Kathimerini, the leading Greek morning daily. He is also a contributor to The BusinessThinker.com
Peter Diamandis
Dr.Peter H. Diamandis is a Greek American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, the co-founder and chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think.
17 ArticlesV.E. "Bill" Haloulakos
Dr. V.E.”Bill” Haloulakos is an AIAA National Distinguished Lecturer and a contibutor to The Business Thinker
Nejat Seyhun
Dr. H. Nejat Seyhun, contributing writer to The BusinessThinker magazine, is the Jerome B. & Eilene M. York Professor of Business Administration and professor of finance, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He is an internationally recognized authority on financial issues and Derivatives.
Richard Parker
Mr. Richard Parker is the author of the “How To Buy A Good Business At A Great Price” series which is sold in over 80 countries. He is the founder of Diomo Corporation and has personally purchased eleven businesses. Learn more about Richard and his materials at diomo.com (www.diomo.com)
George Friedman
Mr. George Friedman is the CEO and chief intelligence officer of Stratfor, a private intelligence company located in Austin, TX.
Joseph P Garske
Mr. Joseph P Garske is a retired private investor. He is an invited contributing writer to the www.BusinessThinker.com
He holds a bachelor degree in history from Harvard.
Allan H. Meltzer
Dr. Allan H. Meltzer is an American Economist and the Allan H. Meltzer professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. He is the author of a large number of academic papers and books on monetary policy and the Federal Resrve Bank. Dr. Meltzer's two volume books, "A History of the Federal Reserve", are considered the most comprehensive history of the central bank. He is considered one of the world's foremost experts on the development and application of monetary policy. Currently he is also President of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Dr. Meltzer originated the aphorism "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. It doesn't work."
George Haloulakos
George A. Haloulakos, MBA, CFA, is a university instructor, author and entrepreneur [DBA Spartan Research and Consulting]. His published works utilize aviation as a teaching tool for Finance, Game Theory, History and Strategy.
9 ArticlesJohn E. Charalambakis
- Dr. John E. Charalambakis is the Chief Economist at Blacksummit Financial Group, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky. He is also with the Adjunct Faculty at Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky.
Dr. Dani Rodrik
Dr. Dani Rodrik is the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy
5 ArticlesStephen J Gill
Stephen J. Gill-- is a guest contributor.
An Independent Consultant for Human Performance
He publishes a blog at: http://ThePerformanceImprovementBlog.com.
Tamir Agmon
Dr. Tamir Agmon is the Associate Dean for Research and Development at the School of Management and Economics, Academic College Tel Aviv Yaffo in Israel. He is also a Professor of Financial Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
Jorge Bibow
Dr. Jörg Bibow is Professor of Economics at Skidmore College and a Research Associate at the Levy Institute at Bard College. His research focuses on central banking and financial systems and the effects of monetary policy on economic performance, especially the monetary policies of the Bundesbank and the European Central Bank.
2 ArticlesKaterina Kapernarakou
Ms. Katerina Kapernarakou is a journalist for the Greek newspaper “Kathimerini”, and a contributor to the BusinessThinker.com covering the international business, economic, and financial issues.
David Verduyn
David Verduyn is a guest writer for The Business Thinker magazine.
He is a principal of C2C Solutions Inc., a company that specializes in best practices for the front end of Product Development.
James Connor
James J. Connor is a transformative, CEO-level global business executive with over 40 years of experience leading and advising companies through strategic transactions, operational transformations, and turnaround situations. He has held the positions of Chief Executive Officer or President of industrial, primarily public companies for a combined 14 years and draws upon his diverse experience to craft meaningful and practical strategies for complex business situations. Connor presently serves as Managing Director of Alderney Advisors. - See more at: http://businessthinker.com/#sthash.a49Il9rw.dpuf
2 ArticlesTheodore Scaltsas
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Professor Theodore Scaltsas holds the Chair of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He started his professional career at Oxford University, after receiving his degrees at Oxford, Brandeis and Duke universities. He specialises in Ancient Greek philosophy, and in innovative applications of Information Technology to abstract thought. He has held Research Fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, and Sydney universities. His publications focus on Aristotle, and extend to Plato, Socrates, Zeno and the Stoics. [http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/people/theodore-scaltsas] Francesco Daveri
Professor Francesco Daveri is a Professor of Economics at the University of Parma. He also teaches Macroeconomics in the MBA Program of Bocconi University in Milan, where he also taught Applied Growth in the Master in Economics and the PhD programme.
Kalypso Nicolaidis
Dr. Kalypso Nicolaïdis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Steve McKee
Steve McKee is president of McKee Wallwork Cleveland and author of When Growth Stalls: How It Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It. Find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Vanessa Merit Nornberg
Vanessa Merit Nornberg: In 2004, Vanessa opened Metal Mafia, a wholesale body and costume jewelry company that sells to more than 5,000 specialty shops and retail chains in 23 countries. Metal Mafia was an Inc. 500 company in 2009. @vanessanornberg
Linda Elder
Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and a prominent authority on critical thinking. She is President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. For further background details go to: http://bit.ly/1zQ2KF1
1 ArticleIzak Duenyas
Izak Duenyas is the John Psarouthakis Professor of Manufacturing Management and Area Chair of Operations Management at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Jim Hudson
Jim Hudson is the founder of the Lean Expert Academy, previous partner in the Lean Leadership Institute with Jeff Liker (The Toyota Way) and Norm Bodek (Productivity Press Founder), and author of the soon to be released book, Lean 2.0: How to Dominate Your Industry Using Lea(R)n Thinking. Jim is also the CEO of a Lean consulting company, the Lean Expert Academy where he trains Lean consultants to implement the exact methodology and techniques that he writes about. Jim's mission is to produce as many excellent Lean thinking executives as possible – arming them with the ability to recreate what he and his team of consultants have been doing consistently for the past six years.
1 ArticleJames Stilwell
Mr. James Stilwell helps organizations in their leadership design and helps to implement ways to authentically engage their entire workforce. He has also taught at the University of Michigan's Executive Education focusing on building collaborative organizational cultures
Nicholas S. Economides
Dr. Nicholas S. Economides is Professor of Economics at Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University He is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, electronic commerce and public policy.
1 ArticleJacopo Carmassi
Dr. Jacopo Carmassi is an economist at Assonime, the Association of Joint Stock Companies incorporated in Italy.
Diane Doyle
Dr. Diane Doyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She is a BBC Trustee and member of the Migration Advisory Committee and of the independent Higher Education Funding Review panel, and was for eight years a member of the Competition Commission (until September 2009). She is also visiting professor at the University of Manchester. She has a PhD from Harvard.
Richard Rush
Mr. Richard Rush is a Vice President at PNC. He has over 24 years of financial services experience including serving as managing director at Wi Trust; divisional director at Alliance Bernstein; portfolio manager and director of research at Fox Asset Management; and national director of institutional consulting at Prudential Securities. Richard currently serves a Investment Advisor at PNC Wealth Management. He is an invited contributor at The Business Thinker, llc.
Athanase Papandropoulos
Dr. Athanase C. Papandropoulos studied economics, politics and media communication in at the university of Mons, university of Liege and university of Lille. He obtained his PhD in Economics in Mons.
He has become one of the leading European personalities among media people, especially in European and business affairs.
He is International Honorary President since 1998, and Former International President 1992-1998, Association of European Journalists; Anchorman for financial matters at SBC TV; Editorial consultant at "European Business Review" magazine.
1 ArticleStewart Tubbs
Dr. Stewart L. Tubbs is a contributor to The Business Thinker magazine. He is the Darrell H. Cooper Professor of Leadership and Former Dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University.
Amy Gillett
Vice President, Education Initiative, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan
1 ArticleLeslie Brokaw
Lelie Brokaw is a Contributing editor, MIT Sloan Management Review,to MIT Sloan Management Review. She has written and edited for the publication and its website since 2008.
Leslie started her business journalism career at Inc., where she was a writer for 11 years and then editor-in-chief of inc.com. She served as editor of Leader, a 1-million circulation publication for adult volunteers of Girl Scouts of the USA, and has written about business and the creative arts for The Boston Globe and other publications in recent years. She teaches graduate courses in magazine publishing at Emerson College, in Boston.
Michael Ammann
Public-private partnership organizational leader with start-up, turnaround & organizational renewal experience in multi-jurisdictional economic development marketing organizations and a metro chamber of commerce. Skilled and experienced in bringing together public private partnerships in association with elected and appointed public officials, business and university leaders. Additional private sector business start-up & management experience in high technology companies.
1 ArticleYannis A. Phillis
Yannis A. Phillis is a guest contributor. He is Professor of Engineering at UCLA and the Technology University of Crete.
Rolf Pfeiffer
Professor Dr. Rolf Pfeiffer of the University of Roetlingen, Germany is a contributor writer to The Business Thinker. He is the Director, Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg and Vice President of the INTEGRATA Foundation.
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