Gladwell to Appear at CSOM Finance Conference

BY ED HAYWARD STAFF WRITER

Best-selling author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell will deliver the keynote remarks at the Carroll School of Management’s 16th annual Finance Conference on May 12.

Gladwell, author of five New York Times bestsellers and the host of the Revisionist History podcast, will present the Dorothy Margaret Rose Knight Economic Keynote Discussion at 8:30 a.m. in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Room. He will speak to the topic of the “problem with meritocracy.”

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Every year, the Carroll School invites respected global experts to assess what’s ahead for markets, the economy, and geopolitics at the conference, led by co-chairs including the Carroll School John and Linda Powers Family Dean Andy Boynton ’78.

A New Yorker magazine staff writer since 1986, Gladwell has authored The Tipping Point; Blink; Outliers; What the Dog Saw; David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants; and The Bomber Mafia. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. His talk at the conference will be followed by Harvard University Kennedy School faculty member Meghan O’Sullivan, who will speak on “The State of the Globe: A New Geopolitical Landscape.” O’Sullivan, a former deputy national security advisor on Iraq and Afghanistan, is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the

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