Leon Prieto & Simone Phipps

Essential voices in discovering the lost voices of African American management history and airing the vital need for cooperation.

AWARD RECIPIENTS

Recipients of the Thinkers50 2021 Breakthrough Idea Award.

RADAR THINKERS

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2021.

FAST FACT

Phipps is the 2021 winner of Middle Georgia State University’s Excellence in Scholarship Award. 

Ideas

Ground-breaking research into African American management history and the contributions of African Americans to the development of management as a discipline. Picking up on the work of Charles Clinton Spaulding, they champion the power of cooperative advantage to reimagine capitalism.

Bio

Prieto is associate professor of management in the College of Business at Clayton State University; Phipps is associate professor of management in the School of Business at Middle Georgia State University. Associate research fellows at University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.

Content

African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage (2019); and “Cooperative Advantage: Rethinking the Company’s Purpose” (MIT Sloan Management Review).

NATIONALITY: Trinidad and Tobago

Media picks

Verdict

“‘Cooperation really could — and should — be the future. Prieto and Phipps are potentially setting the new course of business advantage.”

Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

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