INSEAD, the business school for the world, announced today that four of its faculty members, Professors W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne, Erin Meyer and Gianpiero Petriglieri have been ranked the world’s top 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 2017. Thinkers50, widely regarded as the “Oscars of Management Thinking”, is held biennially to recognise eminent management thinkers for their illustrious achievements in global thought leadership.
W. Chan Kim, INSEAD Professor of Strategy and International Management, and Renée Mauborgne, INSEAD Distinguished Fellow of Strategy and International Management are jointly placed fourth on the Thinkers50 list. Professor Mauborgne is also the highest placed woman in the ranking.
Named as “Blue Ocean Thinkers”, Professors Kim and Mauborgne are the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy and a string of highly influential HBR articles. Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over two million copies, and has been embraced by companies, not-for-profits and national governments around the world: Malaysia has even implemented Blue Ocean Strategy on a national level. Their new book Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing was published in September 2017.
Erin Meyer, INSEAD Senior Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, and Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, are two of the 11 newcomers to the Thinkers50 List this year, ranking 39th and 47th respectively.
Professor Erin Meyer (39th) specialises in the field of Cross-Cultural Management. She is also the best-selling author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, as well as author of several popular HBR articles. Professor Meyer was winner of the 2015 Thinkers50 Radar Award presented to fresh and influential global thought leaders.
Professor Gianpiero Petriglieri’s (47th) award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. His research has appeared in top academic journals and his work is frequently featured in the media. He writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review, where his essays have been included among the “ideas that shaped management” for four of the past five years. At INSEAD, he directs the Management Acceleration Programme, the school’s flagship executive programme for emerging leaders, as well as customised leadership programmes for multinationals in a variety of industries. Professor Petriglieri was named in the Thinkers50 2016 “On the Radar” list.
The Thinkers50 2017 rankings and awards was held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, at Covent Garden, in the heart of London on 13th November 2017 and attended by academics and management gurus from around the world.
The Thinkers50 ranking is based on a set of objective metrics and input from a team of advisors led by its two founders. It has 10 established criteria, including originality and practicality of ideas, international outlook, ability to inspire and presentation style.
For the full Thinkers50 2017 Ranking, please click here.
