Michael Michalowicz ( ; born September 19, 1970) is an American non-fiction author, children’s author, entrepreneur, and lecturer. He is the author of eight business books published by Penguin Random House, including ''All In'' (2023), ''Get Different'' (2021), ''Profit First'' (2017) and ''Clockwork Revised & Expanded'' (2022), and is the former host of the "Business Rescue" segment for MSNBC's ''Your Business''. He was previously the small business columnist for ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'' and hosted the reality television program called ''
Bailout!''.
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Career
Michalowicz founded Olmec Systems in 1996 and sold the business in a private equity transaction in 2003. In 2003 he co-founded a computer forensic firm, which was a lead examiner in the
Enron scandal
The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal involving Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Upon being publicized in October 2001, the company declared bankruptcy and its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen then on ...
. That company was acquired by
Robert Half International
Robert Half, formally referred to as Robert Half International Inc., is a global human resource consulting firm based in Menlo Park and San Ramon, California, founded in 1948. It is a member of the S&P 500, and is credited as being the world's ...
in 2006. The transaction was valued at$27.0.million. Mike Michalowicz currently owns seven companies and has six additional organizations with exclusively licensing rights to his work.
Early life and education
A resident of
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
Mountain Lakes is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb of New York City. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 4,160, , Michalowicz was raised in
Boonton Township, New Jersey
Boonton Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,380, an increase of 117 (2.7%) from the 2010 census count of 4,263, which in turn reflected a de ...
and attended
Boonton High School
Boonton High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Boonton, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Boonton Public Schools. The school i ...
. Michalowicz graduated from
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...
in 1993 and was captain of the Virginia Tech men’s lacrosse team. He graduated with two degrees, one in finance and the other in management science.
References
External links
Official website
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1971 births
Living people
Boonton High School alumni
People from Boonton Township, New Jersey
People from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
21st-century American businesspeople
Virginia Tech alumni
Writers from New Jersey