# In an op-ed, Professor Michelle Greenwald discusses Dominique Ansel's innovation techniques

1 Faculty News June 4, 2015 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/michellegreenwald/2015/06/04/how-the-wildly-deservedly-successful-dominique-ansel-innovates/) -- "Dominique Ansel is undoubtedly the most celebrated and innovative pastry chef in the Western Hemisphere and for good reason. Aside from creating the Cronut phenomenon, he has innovated in so many other ways. He combines magic, entertainment, craft, nostalgia, analogies, complexity, surprise, shapes, interesting presentations, contrasting textures and temperatures, and wow factor into his creations."

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