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Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on Leadership and Strategy.
Professor Finkelstein also teaches executive education at the Tuck School (where he serves as the Faculty Director of the flagship Tuck Executive Program), and has experience working with executives at Northwestern, Wharton, Duke, Bocconi, London Business School, Australian Graduate School of Management, Melbourne Business School, Hanoi School of Business, the Chalmers School (Sweden) and the Helsinki School of Economics.
Sydney Finkelstein has published over 70 articles and 15 books, with several bestsellers, including the #1 bestseller Why Smart Executives Fail. Based on a six-year study of 51 companies and 200 interviews of business leaders, the book identifies the fundamental reasons why major mistakes happen, points out the early warning signals that are critical for investors and managers alike, and offers ideas on how organizations can develop a capability of learning from corporate mistakes. On Fortune Magazine’s list of Best Business Books, it has also been featured in such media as the Financial Times, Business Week, The London Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, Fast Company, Across the Board, and Entrepreneurship, among others, and has been translated into 11 different languages.
In Professor Finkelstein’s follow-up book, Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You, he turns his attention to such major strategic decisions as the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and numerous business cases to explain why decision-makers sometimes think they’re right when they are really wrong. The book takes up recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and management to not only document why things go wrong, but also to offer a series of solutions that reduce our vulnerability to falling into the traps that lead to bad decisions.
Sydney Finkelstein is listed in the “World’s Top 25 Leadership Gurus” and has participated on numerous CEO forums, been interviewed or had his work appear in numerous leading media outlets, and served as consultant and speaker for major companies around the world, including: Aetna, American Express, Bank of Montreal, Barclays, Boeing, Cerberus, Chevron, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, GE, Glaxo, ING, ITT, J&J, JP Morgan Chase, Mayo Clinic, Korn-Ferry, McGraw-Hill, McKinsey, Monsanto, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, PwC, Raytheon, Roche, Russell Reynolds, and UBS.
Professor Finkelstein holds degrees from Concordia University and the London School of Economics, as well as a Ph.D. from Columbia University in strategic management.
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Professor Finkelstein has had three books nominated for the Academy of Management’s “Terry Book Award,” the most prestigious such honor in the field. His other awards include: Finalist for the Academy of Management “Executive Best Paper Award,” the McKinsey & Company Strategic Management Society “Best Conference Paper” Prize -Honorable Mention, the “Best Paper Award” from the Academy of Management Executive for his article Leveraging Intellect, two Citations of Excellence from ANBAR, the world’s leading guide to management journal literature, the Cenafoni Prize for Research in Entrepreneurial Strategy, and finalist for the A.T. Kearney award for “Best Research in Strategic Management.”
Sydney Finkelstein is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management. |
