Christian Busch (management scientist) explained

Christian Busch
Birth Date:1984
Birth Place:Bergisch Gladbach
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Alma Mater:London School of Economics (M.Sc. 2009, Ph.D. 2014)
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Christian Busch (* 1984[1] in Bergisch Gladbach[2]) is a management scientist, author and public speaker recognized for his work on serendipity, innovation, and purpose-driven leadership.[3] [4] [5] He is a business professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business and an affiliate researcher at the London School of Economics.[6] [7]

Education

Busch earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) from Furtwangen University, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Politics and Organization at the University of Hagen. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in management at the London School of Economics. [8]

Career and awards

Busch serves as an Associate Professor of Clinical Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School of Business. Previously, he taught at the London School of Economics (LSE) and New York University (NYU), where he directed the Center for Global Affairs’ Global Economy Program. He co-founded the organizations Leaders on Purpose and Sandbox Network, and served as co-director of LSE’s Innovation Lab.

He is a member of the Expert Forum of the World Economic Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,[9] among CAPITAL's ‘Top 40 under 40’ and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of management thinkers ‘most likely to shape the future’.[10]

Busch is also a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ of the Academy of Management.[11]

Research

Busch’s research interests include:

He has received multiple ‘Best Paper Awards’ from the Academy of Management,[12] as well as the Masini Award for Innovative Scholarship. He serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Perspectives[13] and is a guest editor at the Strategic Management Journal for a special issue on ‘Serendipity, Chance, and Luck in Management and Strategy’.[14]

Busch has published several scientific papers on serendipity, conceptualizing it as “active luck”—the notion of actively making surprising and valuable discoveries. He identifies three key elements of serendipity that help distinguish it from related concepts: agency, surprise and value, and presents a multi-level model involving chance triggers, associations (creating new connections) and ‘materialization’ (realizing a specific possibility). Busch’s theory suggests that social actors have agency in creating serendipity: Like training ‘hard skills’ related to finance or engineering, it is possible to train serendipity-related skills such as alertness.[15] [16]

Busch’s research is widely used in educational and professional development programs, including by the American Psychological Association and Harvard Business Review's Harvard ManageMentor.[17] [18]

He has delivered multiple TEDx Talks on topics such as serendipity, innovation, and purpose-driven leadership.[19]

Works (selected)

Author activity

He is the bestselling author of THE SERENDIPITY MINDSET, a “wise, exciting, and life-changing book” (Arianna Huffington) that “offers excellent practical guidance for all” (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever).[20] As of August 2024, it has been translated into 12 languages.[21] This book was a finalist for the 2018 Financial Times / McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for "best business book proposal of the year by a young writer".[22]

He contributes columns to Psychology Today[23] as well as Wirtschaftswoche.[24]

Private

Busch is German, married to an US-American woman and has one daughter.[25]

References

  1. https://d-nb.info/gnd/122442445X Busch, Christian at DNB
  2. Web site: 2024-08-09 . de . Orell-Füssli . Christian Busch . Author Website (German).
  3. Web site: Caprino . Kathy . A Science-Based Framework Helps Individuals And Organizations Experience More Good Luck . 2024-09-10 . Forbes . en.
  4. News: Walker . Sharon . 2020-09-13 . The 'serendipity mindset': how to make your own luck . 2024-09-10 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  5. Web site: Busch . Christian . 2020-09-17 . Why building a muscle for uncertainty is the most important thing you can do . 2024-09-10 . Fast Company.
  6. Web site: 2024-08-09 . en-us . USC Marshall . Christian Busch .
  7. Web site: 2024-08-11 . London School of Economics and Political Science . en-GB . Dr Christian Busch .
  8. https://uscmarshallweb.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/uploads/s1/cv/christian_busch.cv_christian_busch_hkvee1i5gk.pdf Curriculum Vitae Christian Busch
  9. https://www.thersa.org/comment/2022/02/the-art-and-science-of-creating-smart-luck-in-an-uncertain-world C. Busch, L. Milgrim: The art and science of creating ‘smart luck’ in an uncertain world
  10. Web site: Thinkers50 Radar 2019 . 2024-09-07 . en.
  11. Web site: 2024-08-21 . Academy of Management . en . Subject Matter Experts: Christian Busch .
  12. Web site: Science . London School of Economics and Political . Dr Christian Busch . 2024-09-10 . London School of Economics and Political Science . en-GB.
  13. Web site: Perspectives Incoming Editorial Team . 2024-09-10 . AOM_CMS . en.
  14. Web site: SMJ Special Issues - SMS . 2024-09-10 . strategicmanagement.net/ . en-US.
  15. Busch . Christian . 2024-05-01 . Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization . Journal of Management Studies . en . 61 . 3 . 1110–1151 . 10.1111/joms.12890 . 0022-2380.
  16. Web site: Feintzeig . Rachel . 2023-11-12 . Some People Are Just Lucky. You Can Make Yourself One of Them. . 2024-09-11 . The Wallstreet Journal.
  17. https://pages.apa.org/innovation-series-serendipity-mindset/ Webinar Training Transforming Uncertainty into Opportunity
  18. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/7135-HTM-ENG Harvard ManageMentor: Ethics at Work
  19. Web site: christian busch Search Results TED . 2024-09-10 . www.ted.com.
  20. Web site: Haden . Jeff . 2020-09-28 . Entrepreneurs Like Richard Branson and Mark Cuban Embrace the Serendipity Mindset. You Should Too . 2024-09-10 . Inc.com.
  21. https://curtisbrown.co.uk/client/christian-busch/cv Christian Busch auf curtisbrown.co.uk
  22. News: 2018-11-07 . Bracken Bower Prize 2018: excerpts from finalists’ proposals . 2024-09-11 . Financial Times.
  23. Web site: Christian Busch Ph.D. Psychology Today . 2024-09-10 . www.psychologytoday.com . en-US.
  24. Web site: Christian Busch Aktuelle Beiträge WiWo . 2024-09-10 . www.wiwo.de . de.
  25. Web site: 2024-08-11 . de . SWR . Prof. Christian Busch Wirtschaftswissenschaftler So führt Zufall zum Erfolg .

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