INSEAD Professors recognised among world’s best thought leaders in the Thinkers50 ranking of management and innovation thinkers
Fontainebleau (France), Singapore and Abu Dhabi – November 10, 2015 – INSEAD, the business school for the world, announced today that professors W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne and Herminia Ibarra have been ranked in the top 10 most influential living management thinkers 2015 in the Thinkers50 ranking. In addition, the three INSEAD professors were joined by INSEAD Professor Erin Meyer who has won the ‘On The Radar’ award 2015. Published every two years, The Thinkers50 ranking is the essential guide to which business thinkers and ideas are in – and which have been consigned to business history. Dubbed the ‘Oscars of Management’ awards, it scans, ranks and shares the very best in management ideas.
Professors Kim and Mauborgne were jointly-place third overall, while professor Ibarrawas ranked at number eight this year on the list of business world’s top 50 thinkers. This achievement is representative of INSEAD’s increasing global foot-print.
Kim and Mauborgne, who also earned the number two spot in 2013, are INSEAD Professors of Strategy and Management, and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. They are authors of the best-selling ‘Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create Uncontested Market Space and Make the competition Irrelevant’, which highlights how companies can create uncontested market space through value innovation. Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3.5 million copies and is being published in a record-breaking 43 languages. It is a bestseller across five continents.
Ibarra is the Cora Chair Professor of Leadership and Learning, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils, a judge for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and Chairs the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Business School. She also appeared on the 2013 Thinkers50 list at Number 9 position among the most influential business gurus in the world. Her research and teaching focuses on professional and leadership development, women’s careers and career transition.
Meyer, Professor in the Organisational Behaviour Department at INSEAD, won the ‘On the Radar’ award, which identifies fresh and influential global thought leaders. Specialised in the field of Cross-Cultural Management, Intercultural Negotiations, and Multi-Cultural Leadership, Erin is the Programme Director for two INSEAD executive education programmes including Managing Global Virtual Teams and Management Skills for International Business. She is also the author of ‘The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business’. Erin’s work focuses on how the world’s most successful leaders navigate the complexities of cultural differences in a global environment.
In addition, the ‘Thinkers50 Femmes’ award recognised the best ever showing for women thinkers – with women capturing 14 places out of the top 50 (up from 13 in 2013, 11 in 2011, and just five in 2009). Women thinkers claim no fewer than four of the top 10 places in the new ranking (equaling their 2013 tally), their joint best ever showing. (This compares with only one female thinker in the top 10 in 2011.) At No. 3 in the ranking (with writing partner W. Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne is the highest placed woman. Also in the top ten is INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra (8).
