Mauro F Guillén

Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Cambridge Judge Business School, where he is the incoming Dean. An expert on global market trends, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale and as a business economist in his native Spain to methodically identify and quantify the most promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. His online classes on Coursera and edX have attracted over 100,000 participants from around the world. He has won multiple teaching awards at Wharton, where his presentation on global market trends has become a permanent feature of over fifty executive education programs annually.

His research, teaching, and speaking incorporates both numerical assessments of trends and illuminating examples from business, politics, and everyday life. He shows in accessible terms that one can accurately forecast trends by systematically following the babies and following the money into the future. His research has earned him many distinctions, including Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim fellowships, a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and prizes from the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Social Science History Association, and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. He is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association and the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, and a winner of the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award.

His research, op-eds, and commentary have been featured in numerous outlets, from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to The Economist, and the Financial Times. He has appeared on radio and TV shows such as NPR’s Marketplace and Radio Times, CNBC’s Mad Money and Squawk Box, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. He is a seasoned public speaker at conferences, conventions, forums, and corporate events organized by industry associations and Fortune 500 companies. He serves or has served on several advisory groups, boards of directors, and nonprofit boards of trustees.

His book on 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year, with translations into German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Romanian, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese.

Research Interests:

economic sociology, emerging multinational firms, globalization, international banking strategies, international political economy, multinational management, organizational theory

Awards and Honors

• Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
• Nominated to the Anvil Teaching Award by a vote of all Wharton MBA students, 2014
• Delivers Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University, 2014
• Elected member of the Sociological Research Association, 2013
• Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, 2013
• Excellence in Teaching: Core Curriculum (top 10 teaching ratings in Core), 2012
• Spring Core Teaching Award (“Goes above and beyond the call of duty”), 2011
• Finalist, Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2007
• IV Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the most promising Spanish social scientist under the age of 40, 2005
• Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, 2004
• W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award, American Sociological Association, 2003
• Special Mention, Best Paper Award, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2002
• Wharton Core MBA Teaching Award, 2000
• Selected as Guggenheim Fellow, 1998
• As Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1998
• Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management, 1997
• President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association, 1993
• Finalist, American Sociological Association Best Dissertation Award, 1992
• Co-Winner, Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University, 1992
• Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights, 1991
• Special Mention, Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists, World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, 1990