Gautam Mukunda
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Gautam Mukunda

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Gautam Mukunda studies why some leaders and organizations build extraordinary things while others, with the same resources, fail. His answer—developed across two peer-reviewed books, a weekly Bloomberg Opinion column, and two decades of advising Global 500 executives, military leaders, and innovative startups—has consistently predicted what conventional wisdom missed. The Washington Post said his first book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, seemed to have been "written with a time machine," and Bloomberg's Tom Keene called his second, Picking Presidents, "shockingly prescient." Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote: "If you only read one book to understand how Democrats will, and should, pick a new nominee—and the stakes of the general election—read Picking Presidents." His new book, The Innovator's Revolution (Crown Currency), reveals how to build things that matter—and why doing so is the most profitable strategy, even though our current economic systems are blind to this truth. Mukunda is an Executive Fellow and Lecturer of the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management, a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, and faculty in the Harvard Kennedy School's Senior Executive Fellows Program. He writes a weekly column on leadership and innovation for Bloomberg Opinion and appears regularly on Bloomberg Radio and Television, CNBC, and the BBC. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, where he created and taught the leadership program for the inaugural classes of the Schwarzman Scholarship. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, and Security Studies, among other venues, and profiled in the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Economist, and Wall Street Journal. He was the host of Nasdaq's World Reimagined with Gautam Mukunda and a regular guest host of GBH Television's Greater Boston. Mukunda received his PhD in Political Science from MIT, where he was a Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellow, and his AB in Government from Harvard, magna cum laude. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Jeopardy! Champion.
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