Economics/Business Speakers

In today's competitive environment, understanding your industry at a micro level can help avoid macro level disappointment. Ovations’ Economics and Business Speakers lead the globe's competition, out-innovating the rest. From Noble Prize winners in economics to superannuation strategists, their expertise and acumen help businesses avoid learning things the hard way. Find your expert here.

Verne Harnish

Vern Harnish "Growth Guy" syndicated coloumnist, author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase theValue of Your Fast Growth Firm. Named as one of the Top Ten Minds in Small Business by Fortune Small Business. Verne is the founder of the world-renowned Young Entrepreneurs Organisation (YEO) and the chair's YEO's premiere CEO Programme. Verne is a contrbuting editor an ...

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE's CEO Jeff Immelt to write “How GE is Disrupting Itself”, ...

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

Vijay is an award-winning book author and senior editor at the Economist. He is an accomplished public speaker and provocateur. Observing “he does not shirk taking on tough topics,” the Financial Times declares him to be “a writer to whom it is worth paying attention.” ...

Vikram Mansharamani

Vikram Mansharamani is an experienced global equity investor and Lecturer at Yale University. Dr. Mansharamani teaches the seminar 'Financial Booms & Busts' to Yale College undergraduates, an extremely popular course as indicated by student reviews and enrollment. He is also the author of BOOMBUSTOLOGY: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst and is a regular commentator in the financial medi ...

Virginia Postrel

A brilliant analyst and award-winning commentator, Virginia Postrel speaks and writes about social trends and their economic implications. Her recent work focuses on aesthetics and how fundamental they are to our personal, social and economic lives. Her book, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture and Consciousness, describes how the look and feel of ...

Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Isaa ...

Xisu Wang

Dr Xisu Wang is a remarkable man who brings a wealth of experience and knowledge about China to western countries. He lived his early life under the shadow of Chairman Mao and Communist China. As a young man he realised that China was slowly opening up to the west and left his position as Associate Professor and Dean of Nanjing University and became the first student from mainland China to complet ...

Yamini Naidu

Yamini Naidu is the world's only economist turned business storyteller. Every day she inspires her clients, CEOs, business leaders and entrepreneurs to successfully navigate the journey from spreadsheets to stories. She herself has made the personal and professional shift from a high powered corporate job, the world of spreadsheets to the setting up Australia's first company in storytelling. ...

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