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Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School.聽 He aims to apply rigorous academic research to important practical issues, and communicate complex ideas in a simple and engaging manner.聽 His main interest is on how to reform business so that it serves society as well as generating profit.

Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and presented to the World Bank Board of Directors as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. 聽He gave the TED talk 鈥溾�� and the TEDx talk 鈥溾��.聽He writes for the聽Wall Street Journal, Financial Times,听补苍诲听Harvard Business Review, has appeared on the BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, Sky News, and Sky Sports, and runs a blog,聽, that aims to make complex finance research accessible to a general audience.

Alex also serves as聽聽at Gresham College, giving free lectures to the public. His 2018/19 lecture series is on聽.

Outside of finance, Alex is a keen athlete despite showing mediocre sporting talent whilst at St. Paul鈥檚. When a professor at Wharton (in Philadelphia), he served as Head Coach for the American Cancer Society, training athletes running marathons for the ACS; captained an ice hockey team for three years; and fought a boxing match in the ring where Rocky was filmed. In London he鈥檚 an avid fan of (and occasional coach at) bootcamps, and has introduced mental wellbeing and physical fitness into the London Business School curriculum.

Alex used to play keys/synth in rock bands in Philadelphia and London, and now plays at Holy Trinity Brompton, the second largest church in London (led by the father of one of his St. Paul鈥檚 classmates).

What guidance would you give to your younger self on the day you left 快色视频鈥檚?

Don鈥檛 focus on goals but enjoy the journey.聽 As Paulines, we鈥檙e good at achieving goals 鈥� not just academic grades but also extra-curricular accomplishments which we can put on our UCAS form.聽 I鈥檇 advise my younger self to savour the length, breadth, height and depth of life 鈥� to play sports and music because it鈥檚 fun, to learn something because it鈥檚 interesting even if not on the syllabus, and to waste time with friends.

What鈥檚 the best piece of advice you鈥檝e ever been given?

鈥淵ou can do everything you want to, and be everything you want to be, but not all at once鈥�, from a聽Financial Times聽interview聽by Professor Laurie Hodrick of Columbia.

Let鈥檚 unpack this.聽 The first part of the advice is empowering.聽 You鈥檙e technically an adult when you leave 快色视频鈥檚, but your education doesn鈥檛 stop 鈥� you can reinvent yourself with disciplined practice.聽 I used to be mediocre at both public speaking and sport, but public speaking is a big part of my job now and sport is a big part of my life outside work.聽 And many things you learned at St. Paul鈥檚 are actually much more widely applicable than you previously thought.聽 I never acted at St. Paul鈥檚 and very rarely debated, but English A-level taught me how to write clearly.聽 I just needed to make the transition from written to verbal communication when I took up public speaking.

The second part of the advice highlights the need to focus.聽 We can鈥檛 be all things to all people.聽 We might be asked to serve on this non-profit board, to join that volunteer organisation, to attend this launch event 鈥� and want to accept all of them for fear of missing out.聽 But to do things that no-one else is doing, you have to not do things that everyone else is doing.聽 Life is so short that we should only do things that get you really fired up 鈥� not accept things that are just a moderate 鈥測es鈥�.聽 To quote Derek Sivers, it should be either 鈥渉ell yeah鈥� or 鈥渘o鈥�.

Why did you choose your current career?

While at 快色视频鈥檚, I needed to wake up at 5:30am each day to come to school because I lived in Reading.聽 I鈥檓 really grateful for the education I had at St. Paul鈥檚, but it meant that I had very little free time, and had to give up many hobbies that I previously enjoyed. So I wanted to choose a career that gave me freedom and flexibility.聽 As a finance professor, I earn less than I would as an investment banker (my initial career after university).聽 But I have no boss and almost complete autonomy.

Professionally, this allows me the discretion not to focus exclusively on publishing academic papers or going to conferences with other academics, but instead influencing policy and practice, and writing in the mainstream media. I can work on whatever topic interests me 鈥� my PhD was on the effect of World Cup elimination on investor sentiment and the stock market; my more recent work is on social responsibility, a very different issue.聽 You also can have a much wider impact.聽 When I was a banker, I spent 7 months working on one company鈥檚 problems at that one time.聽 In contrast, a talk or an article can reach millions and is timeless.

Personally, the lack of a boss gives me the flexibility to pursue sports, music, and travel.聽 The only real obligation as a professor is teaching, which I love.聽 It鈥檚 a huge privilege to meet hundreds of smart young minds each year, who will go onto to be the leaders in this world, and be able to influence how they approach business 鈥� hopefully as a way to create value for society rather than just financial returns.