About Professor Lester Thurow

Professor Lester Thurow is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has been a Professor of Management and Economics at MIT for more than 30 years, and was Dean of the Sloan School of Management. has been an economics columnist for many national and international publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Nikkei Business Japan. Professor Thurow is a renowned CNN Journalist. Professor Thurow has been rated among the Top 3 economists in the Accenture Ratings of TOP 50 Management Gurus and Business Intellectuals of the World (the most widely acclaimed guide on business gurus), published in January 2003.
 
Lester Thurow - The Author


America's great economic successes of the late 1990's have been superceded by a hard landing. Why? Lester Thurow's latest book, Building Wealth: The New rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy (Harper Collins, June 1999) provides solid economic answers. Great wealth is built from economic disequilibrium. Creative-destruction is the name of the game.

A prolific writer, Thurow is the author of several books. His 1992 book Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America, looked at the nature of the global economic competition now underway, and stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for more than six months. An earlier bestseller, The Zero Sum Society, looked at the need to make painful structural adjustments in the present to preserve growth and rising standards of living in the future.

With The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World (William Morrow, 1996), Thurow looked at the changing structure of the world economy and what it will take for individuals, firms and nations to be successful in the new economic game that is being developed at the end of the second millennium.

His most recent work, FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD: Winners and Losers in a Global Economy, in the fall of 2003, urges an exploratory spirit for business: the winners of the future will be those organizations and societies that are willing to finance and tolerate risk.
 
Lester Thurow - The Economist

As an Economist, Lester Thurow is known for his dead-on forecasts and his ability to make economists not only clear but also compelling for lay audiences as he addresses the critical issue of Wealth Creation. Thurow has consistently done work that is indispensable to Strategic Planning, especially for Global Corporations. His Model is Sir Francis Drake whose first six voyages ended in failure, but his willingness to try a seventh time "made him the richest man in England, won him a knighthood and put him in the history books forever."

Thurow was the staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. He also served on the editorial board of the New York Times, as contributing editor for Newsweek and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists. His Writings appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and gave regular commentary on "The Nightly Business Report" television program.
 
Lester Thurow - The Speaker

Lester Thurow was one of the speaker on World Congress on IT 2002 held at Adelaide (Australia) with other speaker including Bill Clinton (Keynote), Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Carly Fiorina, Larry Ellison, Don Tapscott, Maggie Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev and Al Gore. Professor Thurow is the Coordinator of MIT Asia-Pacific Initiatives
Thurow currently focuses on the impact of manmade brain power industries and their creation of a global economy that is rapidly replacing national economies.
Thurow's key topics include : Competitiveness and Rapid Technological Change in a Global Economy, Building Wealth in the 21st Century, The Environment and Economic Growth : the Solution, human resource management, oil industry, retailing and telecommunications industry.

 
Lester Thurow - Awards & Recognition
  • Oxford University: Rhodes Scholar 1962
  • Harvard University: Graduate National Fellowship, Wells Prize
  • Time Magazine: one of "200 Rising Leaders,"
  • Gerald Loeb Award for Economic Writing, l982
  • The 1983 Champion Media Awards, First Place Award - Syndicate Columnists
  • Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, l984; 12 Honorary Degrees
 
CREDENTIALS
  • Professor of Management and Economics at MIT since 1968 Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1987 until 1993
  • A 1960 graduate of Williams College, Thurow received his M.A. in 1962 on a Rhodes scholarship at Balliol College (Oxford) and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1964
  • Harvard faculty member from 1966 to 1968
  • Former staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers
  • Served on the Editorial Board of The New York Times, as contributing editor for Newsweek, and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists
  • Writings appearing in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Technology Review Regular commentary on "The Nightly Business Report" television program.
  • Chairman of the Technion Institute of Management
  • Chairman of The Lemelson - MIT Awards Program