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TWO Trinidadians-Dr Leon Prieto and Dr Simone Phipps-have been named on this year's Thinkers50 Radar lists, which ranks what it says are the most influential management thinkers in the world.
Thinkers 50 is based in London.
The radar list, published every two years, is focused on 30 of the top minds from around the globe to watch in the coming year for their innovative ideas that will make the world a better place.
Prieto and Phipps were listed alongside academics and practitioners affiliated with universities such as MIT, Harvard Business School and London Business School.
Prieto, a graduate of Vessigny Secondary School and Point Fortin Senior Secondary (now Point Fortin East Secondary), is a professor at Clayton State University's College of Business.
Phipps is a graduate of Naparima Girls' High School.
She is currently a professor at the Middle Georgia State University's School of Business.
Just two weeks ago, the two were awarded the Minority and Women Entrepreneurship Education Innovator Award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Prieto and Phipps, who are also research fellows at University of Cambridge Judge Business School, have also been receiving international attention for their book African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage, which makes the argument that some successful Black business pioneers such as Charles Clinton Spaulding, Alonzo Herndon, Maggie Lena Walker and others gained a 'cooperative advantage' during the golden age of Black Business (1900-1930) because of the spirit of care and community, dialogue and consensus-building that they engendered, a statement said yesterday.
Prieto and Phipps hypothesise that the spirit of cooperation that was popular then grew out of African traditions of cooperation, such as Ubuntu, which means 'I am, because We are', it added.
MAKING THEIR MARKS: Dr Leon Prieto and Dr Simone Phipps
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