Six MIT alumni — five of whom are from MIT Sloan — have been named to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025 in acknowledgment of their innovations, ideas, and contributions to sectors spanning AI, leadership, gender equality, workplace happiness, and more. The Radar list showcases 30 people “whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on management thinking in the future,” according to Thinkers50.
Mabel Abraham, SM ’13, PhD ’15, an associate professor at Columbia Business School, was selected for her research on the organizational and network processes that negatively amplify gender differences in economic outcomes. Drawing on inspiration from psychology, sociology, and organizational theory, Abraham shows why women and racial minorities continue to be disadvantaged.
Karthik Ramanna, PhD ’07, is a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a fellow at St John’s College. He lectures on how to manage organizations in polarized times, wrote the book “The Age of Outrage,” and studies how organizations and leaders build trust with stakeholders.
Gerry Tsoukalas, SM ’07, is an associate professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where he also serves as faculty director for Graduate Analytics. He is also a co-founder of the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum. As a specialist in artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and analytics, his research integrates domain expertise, data, and advanced models to help leaders spearhead transformation and thrive in uncertainty.
Hitendra Wadhwa, SM ’92, PhD ’96, is the founder of the Mentora Institute, a New York-based leadership development and organizational transformation group. He has conducted research and taught leadership at Columbia Business School for more than 20 years. His 2022 book, “Inner Mastery, Outer Impact,” focuses on inner mastery as the foundation for high performance and exemplary leadership.
George Ward, SM ’21, PhD ’22, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. His work on the topic of well-being has been published in leading academic journals, and he co-authored the forthcoming book “Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters,” which examines the relationship between work and happiness.
Eugenio Zuccarelli, MBAn ’20, has developed AI models and data-driven analyses for application in the health care sector. In 2020, while working toward his master’s degree in business analytics at MIT, he developed a machine learning model that was used to predict the risk of COVID-19 infections in senior facilities..
