INSEAD, The Business School for the World, today announced that four of its faculty members have been ranked among the world’s Top 50 Most Influential Management Thinkers by Thinkers50. The prestigious biennial ranking recognises thought leaders for their achievements in business and academia.
W. Chan Kim, Distinguished Professor of Strategy and International Management, Emeritus, and Renée Mauborgne, Affiliate Professor of Strategy and Distinguished Fellow of Strategy and International Management are once again recognised for their influential blue ocean strategy. Professors Kim and Mauborgne are co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and have featured on the Thinkers50 list since 2003, ranking first in 2019. They are the co-authors of global bestsellers Blue Ocean Strategy; Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth; and Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs. They were also among four leading thinkers honoured at Harvard Business Review’s 100th anniversary celebration in 2023 for the global impact of their far-reaching body of research and ideas.
Another INSEAD faculty honoured in the Thinkers50 ranking is Erin Meyer, Professor of Management Practice. Thinkers50 judges describe her as “the world expert on cultural relativity – how successful managers navigate the complexities of cultural differences.” Meyer has been ranked on the list since 2017. Together with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, she also won the Thinkers50 Talent Award in 2021 for their book No Rules Rules – Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention. She is also the best-selling author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the InvisibleBoundaries of Global Business.
Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, rounds up the list of INSEAD faculty in this edition of the Top-50 ranking. Petriglieri has also featured on the list since 2017 in recognition of his award-winning research and teaching on leadership and learning in the workplace. His “ideas on new models of leadership have played a key role in the evolution of management thinking,” say Thinkers50 judges. A noted public speaker, Petriglieri is a regular contributor to leading academic titles such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is also the Academic Director of the INSEAD Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence.
In other categories in the Thinkers50 awards, INSEAD faculty Nathan Furr and George Ward were both shortlisted for the Distinguished Achievement awards. Professor of Strategy Furr, along with collaborators Jeff Dyer, Curtis Lefrandt and Taeya Howell were shortlisted in the Innovation Awards for their MIT Sloan Management Review article “Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty”. Ward, an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and his collaborator Jan-Emmanuel De Neve were shortlisted in the Talent Award category for their science-driven research into well-being at work. Earlier this year, Ward and INSEAD Assistant Professor Winnie Jiang were featured in the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025, an accolade that spotlights thinkers with the ideas most likely to shape the future.
The latest Thinkers50 Ranking and Awards were announced on 4 November at the Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala in London’s historic Guildhall, after two days of discussion and debate among leading management thinkers and business practitioners.
View the Thinkers50 press release here: https://thinkers50.com/blog/announcing-the-new-thinkers50-ranking-and-distinguished-achievement-awards-2025/
