An honorary doctorate is a doctorate awarded without the person having defended a dissertation. Most often they are given to highly prominent and foreign academics.
Honorary doctorate degrees can be given as recognition of vital life work, even though it is not within a doctoral degree.
She is now researching how everyday life in organizations can affect people and their performance.
Amabile has published over 100 scientific articles and chapters in, among other things, top journals in psychology and management. She has used insights from her research in working with different groups in business, government and education.
He is one of the world's leading economists in the field of macroeconomics and has made important contributions to the study of leadership and its impact on society.
Bloom's work has had significant influence, particularly regarding the effects of economic uncertainty, how leadership affects the economy, and the relationship between innovation, competition, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.
Bloom’s contributions to his fields of study are exceptional and have had a major impact both within academia and at a societal level.
His writings on real options and asset pricing, corporate finance, derivative securities, market microstructure, the role of information in capital markets, and risk management have been published extensively.
He is a former president of the American Finance Association, and has served as editor of the Journal of Finance and was the founding editor of the Review of Financial Studies; the Michael Brennan Award is named for him.
In Norway, she is most known as the country's first female prime minister.
Prior to her political career, she worked, among other things, in the Norwegian Directorate of Health and as an assistant general in Oslo Health Council. Brundtland holds a medical degree from the University of Oslo and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University.
In 1995 Gro Harlem Brundtland, as prime minister, opened the Nordic Center at the Fudan University in Shanghai. The following year, in 1996, she opened BI's collaboration with the School of Management at Fudan University. A collaboration that today consists of an Executive MBA program ranked among the best in the world of the Financial Times.
Campbell gave the Ely lecture to The American Economic Association in 2016 and was president of the American Finance Association in 2005.
He is the Research Associate and former director of the Asset Pricing Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of The Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Campbell is also the founding partner of Arrowstreet Capital, LP, a Boston-based, quantitative asset management company.
This effort corresponds directly with BI's strategy aiming to shape people and business for a sustainable future.
Clinton has used her influence in a number of important areas, and she strives for a society in which women have the power to affect change for development, justice, and peace.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, and presidential candidate.
Professor Eisenhardt's research focus is strategy and organization, especially in technology-based companies and high-speed industries.
She has published a wealth of articles in several top-level journals in business, and has received a number of awards for various works in her research work.
Klaveness was nominated as a candidate for an honorary doctorate by BI's student organization, BISO.
As president of the Football Association of Norway, she has fought for human rights and equal opportunities for all. Klaveness has shown clear leadership, been courageous in her positions, and put social responsibility on the agenda, including her work for changes in FIFA.
He is also the director of the Center for International Research in Accounting and Auditing (ICRAA) and Visiting Research Professor of Auditing at the University of Auckland Business School and Research Professor in Auditing at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business.
His primary research areas are related to topics such as insurance, auditing, control and performance measurement. His work has been published in several leading accounting journals. Professor Knechel is also a member of The Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, U.S.) and board member of the Foundation for Audit Research. He is deeply involved in the methodological education of young European auditing researchers through PhD courses at the Limperg Institute in the Netherlands.
His work is also among the discipline's most cited, and he has received a number of prizes for his research
He still plays a key role in leading doctoral programmes and research programmes around the world, and has had a significant impact on many graduate students. Including at BI. Ajay Kholi is a member of BI's International Advisory Board, and is an important contributor to the marketing field at BI and the Department of Marketing and BI is very proud of his close relationship.
He describes strategic marketing as serving as "the link between society's needs and its pattern of industrial response”.
Kotler helped create the field of social marketing that focuses on helping individuals and groups modify their behaviors toward healthier and safer living styles.
Kotler's latest work focuses on economic justice and the shortcomings of capitalism. He published Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System in 2015 and Democracy in Decline: Rebuilding its Future in 2016.
As well as organisational behavior and quantitative methods.
He has been a professor at Berkeley University since 1988, and was previously associated with Harvard University. Peterson has an extensive list of publications in the best journals in the world in sociology.
His research focuses on macroeconomic themes, especially labor, economic growth and economic policy.
In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics together with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen for their analysis of markets with theory of search freezes.
For more than three decades, his research and writings helped to design the base of modern strategy mindset.
He is known for his groundbreaking line of thought in the area of competitive strategy and international competitive advantage, and have formed a set of criteria for national competitive advantage as well as for the individual companies ' advantage in international markets. Especially famous is his Five Forces Model that is used to assess the attractiveness of an industry.
His works, which are published in top-level journals in strategy, have shaped the development of the subject, and are classics in the literature of this discipline.
His recent publications in organisational design have characterised the development towards more modern and digital organisational forms. Charles Snow has a strong connection with BI, and has been an important contributor to the field of business strategy at BI.
She is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience in several fields, including law, economics, management, and strategy.
Spier's research is published in some of the world's highest-ranked journals, and covers areas such as the economic aspects of legal disputes, contracts, tort law, antitrust legislation, and business organizations
He is former vice president and chief economist at the World Bank and is former member and leader of the US Presidential Council of Economic Advisers.
Stiglitz is also known for his support for Georgian public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization, laissez-faire economists and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Zeithml is an expert in service marketing and service quality. In the 80's, Zeithaml and her co-authors developed SERVQUAL, which is a quality management framework for services.
She was called Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in the report on "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds."