全球十大顶尖商学院教授

格雷格•费尔柴尔德

学校：弗吉尼亚大学-达顿商学院

年龄：47岁

趣事：费尔柴尔德在教书前曾在宝洁(Procter & Gamble)、萨克斯第五大道精品百货店(Saks Fifth Avenue)担任时尚营销工作。

    格雷格•费尔柴尔德开始是去商学院拜访，希望能在时尚业保持领先，最后，他在达顿商学院开创了毕生的教学和研究事业。

    费尔柴尔德大学一毕业就在纽约的萨克斯第五大道精品百货店找到了一份工作。作为女装部经理，他的日常工作从管理一个8人团队到签订6,000美元的定制女装,林林总总。当他的导师(萨克斯高级副总裁)问他，他希望将自己的职业发展带到怎样的高度时，费尔柴尔德回答说，他的目标是总经理。因此，这位导师建议，MBA学位是敲门砖。

    结果，费尔柴尔德的导师错得不能再错。“在我的MBA课堂里，300个学生里可能只有三位来自零售业。”类似地，费尔柴尔德表示，当他完成学业时，并没有很多零售商愿意冒险为他提供“快速上升通道”。

    不过，也有好处。他花时间念了MBA，为他从事学术工作奠定了基础。如今，费尔柴尔德是达顿商学院一位受人尊敬、颇具影响力的商业教授。他把大公司研究留给同事，自己专注于另一端，形成了他所谓的“新兴国内市场”。再具体点说，费尔柴尔德感兴趣的是研究城市内部社区，以及如何将大公司原则应用于那些通常被视为高风险的领域。

Greg Fairchild

School: Univ. of Virginia - Darden

Age: 47

Fun fact:Fairchild was in fashion marketing at Procter & Gamble and Saks Fifth Avenue before teaching.

    What started out as a trip to business school to get ahead in the fashion industry turned into a lifetime of teaching and research for Darden's Greg Fairchild.

    Fresh out of college, Fairchild's landed a job at New York's Saks Fifth Avenue. As a manager in the women's department, his day-to-day tasks ranged from managing a team of eight to closing the deal on $6,000 couture dresses. When his mentor (senior VP of Saks) asked him how far he'd hoped to take his career, Fairchild replied that he had his sights set on general manager. So the mentor advised him that his ticket was the MBA degree.

    As it turned out, Fairchild's advisor couldn't have been more wrong. "Out of 300 students in my MBA class, maybe three of us were from retail." Likewise, Fairchild says when he completed the degree, there weren't many retailers breaking their necks to put him on the "fast track."

    Yet there was a silver lining. His time spent pursuing his MBA laid the ground work to a career in academia. Fairchild is now a recognized and influential business professor at Darden. He leaves the study of big business to his colleagues and instead focuses his research at the opposite end of the spectrum, honing in on an area he calls "emerging domestic markets." More specifically, Fairchild is interested in studying inner city communities and ways to apply big business principles in areas that are generally viewed as high-risk.