Guy Rolnik

Biography

For the last 30 years, Guy Rolnik has lived and worked in the intersection of business, finance, regulation, politics, and the media. First, as a financial journalist and editor, later as a business entrepreneur and founder of a business and finance media company, and in the last 15 years as a policy entrepreneur - using media and research as tools for driving structural reforms in the economy.

Rolnik鈥檚 work as a founder and Editor-in-Chief of a leading business newspaper and later in academia influences the ideas, norms, and discourse around questions of competition, concentration and antitrust enforcement and brought about significant changes in regulatory policies and legislations. In this process, he has gained a unique understanding of the interplay of the three worlds: business, regulation, and the media. Students will gain new and fresh insights from this paradigm.

Rolnik was the chair of a global committee of leading scholars and experts (Stigler Center Digital Platforms Sub-Committee on the news) that 聽 were tasked to write a policy report on securing independent press in a world dominated by a handful of digital platforms. The subcommittee鈥檚 findings contributed to the Stigler Center鈥檚 Final Report on Digital Platforms, which became an influential academic and policy reference on Big Tech鈥檚 impact on competition, information, and democracy.

Rolnik won multiple grants from the SNI research Institute in the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) for conducting research on 鈥淩egulatory Capture鈥� and the interaction between media, business sector, and regulatory policy.聽

Rolnik is a creator and director of Documentary films on business, economics, and politics. In 2023 and 2024, he created three documentaries on the power and influence of big tech and social media.聽

Rolnik is the 2013 recipient of the Sokolov Prize for lifetime achievement, Israel鈥檚 most prestigious journalism honor. The award recognized his transformative impact on Israeli economic journalism and public discourse. Rolnik was commended for turning business reporting into a central instrument of civic accountability, exposing the dangers of excessive market and political concentration, and illuminating the ties between powerful business groups, regulators, and policymakers.聽

Rolnik earned a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University, a Kellogg-Recanati International MBA from the EMBA program at Northwestern University, 黑料传送门, and Tel Aviv University, and an AMP165 from the advanced management program at Harvard Business School. He was a fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School.聽

Before joining Booth in 2015, Rolnik has taught courses in two leading MBA and entrepreneurship programs in Israel - the entrepreneurship MBA program at Tel Aviv University and the MBA program at the Reichman University in Herzliya.

Academic Areas

• Strategy and Leadership