Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2020/21: No. 24

Robert F Bruner
University Professor, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Dean Emeritus
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Bob Bruner is University Professor at the University of Virginia, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business. He has also held visiting appointments at Harvard and Columbia Universities in the United States, INSEAD in France and IESE in Spain. As a financial economist, Bob is best known for his research on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and financial panics. His books Deals from Hell and Applied Mergers and Acquisitions have helped numerous practitioners and students toward successful transactions. In addition, another of his books, The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm, co-authored with Sean Carr, helps to illuminate the historical drivers of financial crises. Most recently, he comments on life, business and current events in his blog.

In 2011, Bob led a global task force of deans for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business that produced a comprehensive review of global management education. The resulting book-length report, The Globalization of Management Education, urged educational leaders to rise to the challenges of globalisation. He is the author and co-author of over 300 teaching cases and of Case Studies in Finance, now in its eighth edition