Brian M. Carney is a senior executive at Rivada Networks. He is formerly an editor, journalist and member of the
Editorial Board at ''The Wall Street Journal''.
From August 2009 until early 2014 , he lived in London and served as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is the coauthor, with
Isaac Getz, of
Freedom, Inc. published by Crown Business on October 13, 2009. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and the Frederic Bastiat Journalism Prize.
Biography
Brian Carney attended
Yale College
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...
, where he majored in philosophy and was the 93rd Chairman of the
Party of the Right (Yale). He was also involved in the
Yale Political Union
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. He then went on to receive a master's degree in philosophy from
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...
. After college, he spent a winter working as a sternman on a lobster boat on
Monhegan Island
Monhegan () is an island in the Gulf of Maine located in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. A plantation, a minor civil division in the state of Maine falling between unincorporated area and a town, it is located about off the mainland. Th ...
, Maine. Before becoming a Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member he was the editorial page editor of ''
The Wall Street Journal Europe
''The Wall Street Journal Europe'' was a daily English-language newspaper that covered global and regional business news for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Published by Dow Jones & Company (a News Corp company), it formed part of th ...
.'' Prior to that he worked for the "Innovations in American Government" program at
Harvard University
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.
Awards
*2009
Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac"
Books
''Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth'' Brian M. Carney,
Isaac Getz, New York,
Crown Business
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/
Random House
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, 2009, 304 p. () (revised and expanded edition, ''Freedom, Inc.: How Corporate Liberation Unleashes Employee Potential and Business Performance'', Argo Navis/
Perseus Books
Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence imprint) in 1997. It was named Publisher of the Y ...
, 2016), 400 p. (); translated into more than a dozen languages.
References
External links
"Brian Carney" ''The Wall Street Journal''
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Wall Street Journal people
Yale College alumni
Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni
Harvard University staff
Bastiat Prize winners
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials