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Geoffrey Colvin is a Senior Editor-at-Large at Fortune Magazine, a position he has held since at least 2005. He is co-author—with Larry Selden (of the Columbia Business School—of Angel Customers and Demon Customers (2003), and sole author of the Penguin-Portfolio books, Talent is Overrated (2008), The Upside of the Downturn (2009), and Humans Are Underrated (2015).

Early life and education

In interview, Geoffrey Colvin has stated that he was "born and raised in Vermillion, South Dakota", leaving there with his parents at age of 14 years. Again, by his own description, he attended and graduated from high school in Carbondale, Illinois, and went to college at Harvard, where he was an economics major. He went on to earn a degree from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Career

As of July 2026, Geoffrey Colvin is serving as a Senior Editor-at-Large for Fortune Magazine, a position he has held at least since 2005.

Colvin co-led a successor to Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street; when that 2002 CNBC launch, again a Rukeyser-hosted program—itself descended from the cancellation of the PBS program, Wall Street Week with Fortune, that same year—ended a two year run for reason's of the host's health. Colvin and Karen Gibbs co-anchored a program with the same "Wall Street Week with Fortune" name, on its return to PBS, until its cancellation in 2005.

Published works

Colvin is co-author with Larry Selden (of the Columbia Business School) of Angel Customers and Demon Customers (2003), as well as sole author of the Penguin-Portfolio books, Talent is Overrated (2008), The Upside of the Downturn (2009), and Humans Are Underrated (2015).

As sole author

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With co-authors

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