0619 | Jean-Philippe Vergne

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Published on September 14, 2015. Updated on November 30th, 2023.

0619 | Jean-Philippe Vergne

Jean-Philippe Vergne is the author of The Pirate Organization. He is an assistant professor of strategy at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. His ongoing research on the global arms industry received the inaugural Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2011. In this interview, we discuss how pirates and misfits preserve the spirit of capitalism.

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