Alex Edmans
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Alex Edmans

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Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talks “The Pie-Growing Mindset” and “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 3 million views. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist (“By Invitation”), Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum and been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports. Alex is the author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit (a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2020), May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It, and the classic finance textbook Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). His latest book, The Madness of Markets: How Smart Investors Make Crazy Decisions – And How To Exploit Them, will be published by Penguin Random House in September 2026.
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    • Grow the Pie

    • How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
    • By: Alex Edmans
    • Narrated by: Alex Edmans
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • May Contain Lies

    • How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Alex Edmans
    • Narrated by: Alex Edmands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-24
    • Language: English
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