In a FORTUNE Magazine cover story titled "Catch a Rising Star,"Geoffrey Colvin, senior editor at large writes: "Top talent has never been more valuable, nor competition for it more fierce... After 500 years or so the scarcest, most valuable resource in business is no longer financial capital. It's talent."
FORTUNE Senior Editor-at-Large Geoffrey Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and columnist for FORTUNE, he has become one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership and management, the shareholder value imperative, corporate governance, the infotech revolution, and related issues
The global debate on corporate governance and shareholder value, which has become particularly intense in recent months, has been a central interest of Geoff's for the past decade. In addition to directing Fortune's coverage of the issue for several years, he has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on CEO Pay, whose influential report has helped shape compensation policy at hundreds of companies. He has spoken on governance and shareholder value at the Directors' Institute at the Wharton School, at the Kellogg School, and at corporate gatherings in the U.S. and the U.K. He has also advised Japan's Ministry of Finance on the issue.
Colvin is heard daily on the CBS Radio Network, where he has made over 7,000 broadcasts. He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, PBS's Nightly Business Report, and dozens of other programs.
A native of Vermillion, South Dakota, Colvin has a B.A. in economics from Harvard and an M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School.