ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ROBERT E. QUINN is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He is one of the cofounders of the field of positive organizational scholarship. He has written 18 books. He is in the top 1 percent of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards. In a global survey he was recognized as one of the top speakers on the topic of organizational culture and related issues. More than 15 million people viewed his video talk on purpose.

ANJAN V. THAKOR is the John E. Simon Professor of Finance, Director of the PhD program, and Director of the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research in the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Fellow of The Financial Theory Group. He served as managing editor of Journal of Financial Intermediation from 1996 to 2005 and currently serves as an associate editor. He is past president and a founder of the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He has published his research extensively in the top economics and finance journals. He has been named as the fourth most prolific researcher in the world in finance over the past 50 years based on publications in the top seven finance journals over that time, and as one of the five-most prolific finance authors in the world from 2005 to 2015. He has been actively involved in advising PhD students who have gone on to enjoy distinguished academic careers and has chaired dissertation committees of more than 30 students who have received their PhDs. He has won numerous teaching awards in the MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs. He has consulted with numerous corporations.