Dean LeBaron is one of the world’s most respected institutional money managers and author of Mao, Marx, and the Market. The founder of Batterymarch Financial Management in Boston and a distinguished alumnus of the Harvard Business School, he is one of the pioneers of index funds and quantitative investing. He was an early, and sometimes first, institutional investor in the emerging markets of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, and Russia and was invited by the Gorbachev government to help privatize the Soviet military industrial complex. In 2001, he joined such investment luminaries as Warren Buffett as the recipient of the prestigious lifetime achievement award from the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute.