Donald Sull
Management scholar and strategy teacher
Donald Sull is a management scholar who has taught strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He wrote Simple Rules.
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Born in the United States
About Donald Sull
Donald Sull has taught strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has also been on the faculty at London Business School and Harvard University. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Harvard. Before academia, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and as an investor in leveraged buyouts. Sull has written five books, including The Upside of Turbulence, Made in China and Why Good Companies Go Bad. Beyond his books, he has produced over a hundred chapters, case studies and articles. His theory of active inertia has been named among the influential ideas in business management of the last hundred years. He first came to appreciate simple rules while working as a bouncer in a biker bar.