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Umair Haque

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Umair Haque
Haque at the NEXT Conference in 2009
Education
Occupation(s)Consultant, Author

Umair Haque is a British economist, consultant and author. He was the director of the Havas Media Lab,[1] has previously blogged in the Harvard Business Review and is author of the book The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business.[2] The book sets the "incumbent" capitalists of the 20th century against the 21st "insurgents" and states that the latter are creating a more sustainable "new capitalism".[3][4] He has written on economic and civilizational issues on the Medium writing platform but is now less active on Medium and prefers Eudaimonia&Co. [1] and The Issue [2].

Personal life

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Haque is the son of Pakistani economist Nadeem Haque.[5] He graduated from McGill University with a degree in neuroscience and got an MBA from the London Business School.[1][4]

Bibliography

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  • Haque, Umair (2011). The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business. Harvard Business Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4221-5858-6.
  • Haque, Umair (2011). Betterness: Economics for Humans. Harvard Business Publishing.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Umair Haque - Thinkers50". thinkers50.com. August 22, 2013. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
  2. ^ Byrne, Ciara (January 27, 2011). "Umair Haque on the tech industry's "thin value problem"". VentureBeat. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
  3. ^ "The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively better Business (Book Review)". International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 6.
  4. ^ a b Taylor, Nick (November 13, 2011). "Book Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a disruptively better business". British Politics and Policy at LSE. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  5. ^ Haque, Dr Nadeem (July 20, 2011). "Nadeem Haque mentioning it at 3:34 min". YouTube.
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