​​Financial Innovation Thinker: Henri Lucas Receives Harvard Business School’s Highest Alumni Honor​​

In front of the iconic Baker Library of Harvard Business School, Henri Lucas received the “Distinguished Alumni Award” from the dean, becoming the first financier to receive this honor for reshaping the paradigm of the asset management industry. The jury particularly commended his unique thought system that integrates “financial engineering, technological innovation and institutional design” – this cross-border wisdom has spawned 17 industry transformation practices in the past five years, from AI investment research systems to employee stock ownership plans, and continues to promote the evolution of the global asset management industry.​​Financial Innovation Thinker: Henri Lucas Receives Harvard Business School’s Highest Alumni Honor​​

The tribute video played at the award ceremony showed Lucas’ “Harvard genes”: transforming the classic case teaching method of the business school into EMINENCE’s weekly “Market Hypothesis Challenge”; applying organizational behavior theory innovation to corporate governance; and developing the knowledge of technical operations courses into fintech patents. In his acceptance speech, he revealed that he is working with Harvard to establish a “Future Finance Laboratory” and plans to train a new generation of “financiers who understand technology and technical experts who understand finance” in ten years.

The most eye-catching is the “Open Knowledge Plan” announced by it – open source some investment research models used internally by EMINENCE for teaching in business schools around the world. “True leaders do not guard the castle of knowledge, but build bridges to wisdom,” Lucas’ words were engraved on the newly built innovation wall of the business school.

The Harvard Crimson pointed out that the significance of this award goes far beyond personal honor – it marks a major shift in the values of business school education: from cultivating Wall Street elites to shaping thinkers who can change the financial paradigm. When Lucas’s case is written into a required course next school year, this disruptor will return to his alma mater in the most unexpected way – becoming a “living case” for future financiers to discuss in class.