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May 17, 2007
Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect - What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation, 5-17-07
Frans Johansson is a widely respected thought leader and consultant specializing in business innovation, an entrepreneur and hedge fund manager, an international speaker, and the author of The Medici Effect: What Elephants & Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation (Harvard Business School Press).
Johansson exemplifies the “Intersection,” a place he writes about where ideas from different disciplines and cultures collide and create an explosion of new possibilities. Raised in Sweden by his African-American-Cherokee mother and Swedish father, he earned his B.S. at Brown University, where he founded the university-wide science magazine The Catalyst. He then earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. He is currently managing director of Medici Capital Management, a hedge fund with an investment strategy based on the Medici Effect.
Since the hardcover edition came out in 2004, Johansson has become a much-sought-after speaker at conferences and Fortune 500 companies around the world, including Sprint, Nike, Pepsi, General Motors, SAAB, Motorola, IBM, EDS, Unilever, JP Morgan Chase, and Pfizer. The Medici Effect has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Italian. It has been on bestseller lists in at least three countries, and was named the Top-10 Best Business Book of the Year by Amazon.com Editor’s Pick. BusinessWeek SmallBiz named it one of the Best Books on Innovation. The Medici Effect has become course literature in several universities and colleges around the world, including Harvard Business School.
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