Examining global challenges through a sociological lens.
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Mao and Markets was named a Financial Times Best Book in 2022.
Mao and Markets received a Gold Medal at Axiom Business Book Awards, in 2023.
Christopher is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he was the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, and before that spent 10 years as a professor at Harvard Business School and 18 months at Harvard Kennedy School as a professor of social innovation and public policy. He has a PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan and earlier, worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as a vice president and technology manager at JP Morgan Chase. Christopher has received numerous awards including Best Book 2022 by the Financial Times, for Mao and Markets.
The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs (2024); The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (2022); Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets (2020). ‘Don’t be fooled by AI companies’ “ethics washing”’ (Fast Company, October 2024); ‘Greenwashing is rampant among many iconic brands. Here’s how Allbirds avoids it’ (Fast Company, September 2024); ‘How an abstract economics concept lets corporations off the hook’ (The Hill, August, 2024); ‘Individual Investors Need to See Risks Differently’ (Barron’s, July 2024); ‘In Defense of Degrowth’ (Harvard Business Review, June 2024).
Adam Grant, Thinkers50 #2 Ranked Thinker, author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, Originals, Give and Take
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