50 best business professor blogs

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50 Best Business Professor Blogs

Posted on December 20th, 2010

If you're already in school as an undergraduate

studying business or in a respected b-school graduateprogram you probably already turn to yourprofessors for advice, mentoring, and help with classes.But if you're already working in the business world, orjust want to learn more about top business stories whilerethinking classic business principles from expertsoutside of your normal circle, these blogs deservebookmarking. Written from professors at great schoolsacross the world, they cover all kinds of businesstopics, from innovation to competition and strategy tobusiness law to economics to career management.

Economics

Economics professors dissect U.S. policies,international markets and more.

1. Greg Mankiw's Blog: Professor Mankiw teaches at Harvard and blogs to keep up withstudents and further the public conversation on economics, tax issues, and major storiesaffecting the U.S. economy. Also check out his Advice for Students category for studentsthinking about grad school, undergraduate course requirements, and more.

2. Grasping Reality With Both Hands: This UC Berkeley professor aims to provide a"fair, balanced, reality-based, and even-handed" look at economies theories, the market,international issues, and more.

3. Econbrowser: James D. Hamilton is a professor at UC San Diego and blogs here abouteconomic conditions and policy, sharing his evaluations on and concerns about trade,inflation, and taxes, among many other topics.

4. Carpe Diem: University of Michigan economics and finance professor Mark J. Perry iscurrently on sabbatical and living in Washington, D.C., but he still blogs regularly tobreak down the impact everyday people have on the economy, here and abroad.

5. Statistical Modeling, Casual Inference and Social Science: Award-winning professorAndrew Gelman and his research team blog about their highly scientific studies in anaccessible style, focusing on Bayesian statistics and multilevel modeling.

6. Marginal Revolution: Tyler Cowen is the economics chair at George Mason Universityand also oversees this blog, while also contributing to other journals and publications.Read this blog for a wide range of economics articles about health care, debt,international economics, and a lot more.

7. Economist's View: University of Oregon professor Mark Thoma writes about the Fed,tax policy, supply and demand, and other important economics issues affecting our day-to-day existence. He's also a great resource for finding other articles, blogs and resourceson the web to further your education.


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Management and Leadership

Become a better manager, even if you don't have the official title, by reading these blogs.

8. Professor Michael Roberto's Blog: Bryant University professor and former HarvardBusiness School faculty member Michael Roberto writes about all types of businessstrategies on his blog, mostly focusing on management tactics and leadership whilecommenting on current headlines.

9. Robert Salomon's Blog: Professor Salomon teaches management at NYU's Stern Schoolof Business. You'll find a daily feed of the day's top business stories from various mediaoutlets, as well as original content dissecting mergers and acquisitions, budgeting,problem-solving, and more.

10.Stew Friedman: Friedman is a Practice Professor of Management at Wharton BusinessSchool. Here he blogs about cultivating your own effective leadership style, whetheryou're a boss of a small department or company, or an executive for a high-profilebusiness.

11.Billso

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This is a great resource for managers and students who want to learn how to usetechnology particularly mobile computing and information systems forcollaboration and branding.

12.Authentic Organizations: This blog comes from a former business school professor whostill lectures to MBA and EMBA students and who blogs here on organizational identity,branding, organizational diversity, and achieving purpose.

13.Work Matters: Bob Sutton's clear, easy-to-read blog is all about maximizing your ownpotential and inspiring others around you to be more creative, productive and smart,without micro-managing. If you're looking for good business books to guide you, he's agreat resource for that, too.

14.Business Exposed: London Business School professor Freek Vermeulen writes aboutwhat really goes on in the world of business, once you get beneath the airbrushedfacade." Recent posts cover everything from ethics to analysts to communicationstrategy.

15.Women's Leadership: This blog from Babson College highlights influential,inspirational women leaders, in business and other professions.

Accounting and Finance

These professors use their blogs to educate the public, business students, and businessprofessionals on better PF and work-related finance.

16.Financial Rounds: This East Coast graduate school professor blogs to marry the theoriesand concepts taught in class with real-world finance problems.

17.Financial Literacy and Ignorance: Annamaria Lusardi is currently an economicsprofessor at Dartmouth, but she's taught everywhere from the Graduate School ofBusiness at Columbia to the University of Chicago Public Policy School, and has evenserved as an adviser to the U.S. Treasury. Read her in-depth posts to learn more aboutdebt, investments, and more.


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18.The Finance Professor: Scott Rothbort has worked at Merill Lynch and founded his ownasset management company, but he's also a term professor at the Stillman School ofBusiness at Seton Hall University.

19.Professor David Kass: University of Maryland business school professor David Kassposts on business news, including major investments, losses, earnings and other reports

from high-profile companies.20.My Finance Professor: Dr. Boyce Watkins is your "finance physician," sharing tips onPF, including investing in retirement, saving money, and managing debt.

21.Professor Jayanth R. Varma's Financial Markets Blog: Students and professionalslooking to analyze financial markets can follow this blog to learn more about stockexchange competition, bailouts, and more, in India and around the world.

22.Kellogg Insight Presents: The Kellogg School of Management's finance departmentmaintains this blog to educate readers on the significance of and theories behind majorgovernment and private sector deals and transactions.

23.365 Days on a Budget: Follow University of Alabama Birmingham assistant professorfinance Stephanie Rauterkus as she helps families budget for every day of the year.

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University of Essex accounting professor Prem Sikka blogs for TheGuardian on the financial crisis, financial markets and business ethics in the UK andabroad.

25.Tick Marks: Keep up with accounting principles and financial news stories from DanMeyer, an accounting professor in Tennessee.

Business Law

From sports law to corporate law and beyond, here's what you need to know in terms of B-Law.

26.Professor Bainbridge.com: Stephen Bainbridge and William D. Warren, law professorsat UCLA, blog about corporate law, and big cases involving government intervention.27.Business Law Prof Blog: A part of the Law Professors network, this blog is contributedto and edited by professors from law schools at the University of Dayton, Hofstra,University of North Dakota, and the University of Akron. Read it for insight into thefinancial crisis, the oil and gas industry, Internet issues and e-commerce trends, andmore.

28.FCPA Professor: Mike Koehler teaches Business Law at Butler University and hereblogs about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. His background advising clients andworking on FCPA cases still influences his posts that comment on current issues andprosecutions.

29.TaxProf Blog: Charles Hartsock of University of Cincinnati College of Law and Paul L.Caron keep up this blog to report on tax law, including the IRS, law school, tax analysis,and more.

30.Sports Law Blog: If you're interested in going into sports law, read this blog, maintainedby several contributors, to learn about the legal issues involved with running a sportsteam.

31.The Conglomerate: Six business law professors blog about business, economics andsociety, commenting on ethics issues and more.


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Marketing

Get tips on customer behavior, competition, ethics and more.

32.MarketingProfs: This blog network shares a wide range of posts about marketing,consumer behavior and expectations, innovation, technology, and more.33.John Sviokla: This HBR blog from former Harvard Business School marketing professorJohn Sviokla is designed for marketing managers looking for better ways to direct theirown teams and reach customers.

34.Responsible Marketing: Patrick Byers used to teach a course on marketingcommunications but now sits on the department advisory board at the University ofWashington. Read his blog for news and theories on marketing ethics, and therelationship between "commerce and conscience."

35.Technology and Marketing Law Blog: Eric Goldman's blog is an important resourcefor learning how to navigate new media and Internet marketing opportunities legally andsafely.

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This marketing professor and researcher has a sleek blog on which hereports news from conferences, his work, and his teaching experiences.37.Life is a Sandbox: Champlain College associate marketing professor Dr. Elaine Young

discusses social media marketing and management here.

Entrepreneurship

Below you'll find blogs from professors who are also great inspiration for breaking out on yourown.

38.The Entrepreneurial Mind: Belmont University's Dr. Jeff Cornwell maintains thispopular blog on entrepreneurship, combining business theory with best practices andstories about small business culture.

39.Andrew Hargadon: UC Davis entrepreneurship chair Andrew Hargadon is an author,researcher and the founder of two centers at his university promoting cross-disciplinaryentrepreneurship. Here he blogs about companies making innovative changes and thenecessary characteristics of entrepreneurs.

40.BOPreneur: Consultant and Colorado State graduate school innovation andentrepreneurship professor Paul Hudnut writes about those entrepreneurs working toimprove the lives of people who earn less than $3 per day, living at the Base of thePyramid.

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eneral Business

From business and tech to career management, here are even more fantastic business professorblogs to read.

41.Tom Davenport: Babson College professor Tom Davenport blogs for the HarvardBusiness Review about IT, social media, leadership skills, and decision-making.


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