Honorary doctorates

Teresa Amabile is originally a chemist and is primarily known for her research on writing and creativity. She is now researching how everyday life in organizations can affect people and their performance. 

Secretary Clinton has been a vocal advocate for women’s rights, and she has fought important battles throughout her significant career. This effort corresponds directly with BI's strategy aiming to shape people and business for a sustainable future. 

Stiglitz is economist and professor at Columbia University. He is the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Subjects (2001) and John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is former vice president and chief economist at the World Bank and is former member and leader of the US Presidential Council of Economic Advisers.

Pissarides is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on macroeconomic themes, especially labor, economic growth and economic policy.

Charles Snow is one of the most significant international characters in the field of strategy. His works, which are published in top-level journals in strategy, have shaped the development of the subject, and are classics in the literature of this discipline. 

Professor W. Robert Knechel is The Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at The University of Florida, where he is also the director of the Center for International Research in Accounting and Auditing (ICRAA). He is also Visiting Research Professor of Auditing at the University of Auckland Business School and Research Professor in Auditing at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business.

Michael Porter is head of the department for strategy and competitiveness at Harvard Business School. For more than three decades, his research and writings helped to design the base of modern strategy mindset.

Brennan co-designed the Brennan-Schwartz interest rate model and was a pioneer of real options theory. His writings on real options and asset pricing, corporate finance, derivative securities, market microstructure, the role of information in capital markets, and risk management have been published extensively.

Kathleen Eisenhardt is Stanford W. Ascherman Professor and Associate Professor at Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. Professor Eisenhardt's research focus is strategy and organization, especially in technology-based companies and high-speed industries.

Internationally, Brundtland is particularly known as the leader of the Brundtland Commission, and as General Director of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. In Norway, she is most known as the country's first female prime minister.

Valarie Zeithaml is David S. Van Pelt's Family Distinguished Professor in Marketing at Kenan-Flagler Business School. Zeithml is an expert in service marketing and service quality. In the 80's, Zeithaml and her co-authors developed SERVQUAL, which is a quality management framework for services. 

Through his research on market orientation, Ajay Kohli became one of the most acclaimed and leading professionals in marketing in the nineties. His work is also among the discipline's most cited, and he has received a number of prizes for his research.

John Y. Campbell is The Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Campbell gave the Ely lecture to The American Economic Association in 2016 and was president of the American Finance Association in 2005.

Trond Petersen is an important contributor to international fields such as sociology, industrial relations, organisational behavior and quantitative methods. He has been a professor at Berkeley University since 1988, and was previously associated with Harvard University. Peterson has an extensive list of publications in the best journals in the world in sociology.

Kotler is the author of over 60 marketing books, including Marketing Management, Principles of Marketing, Kotler on Marketing and Marketing Insights from A to Z. He describes strategic marketing as serving as "the link between society's needs and its pattern of industrial response”. Kotler helped create the field of social marketing that focuses on helping individuals and groups modify their behaviors toward healthier and safer living styles.