The Thinkers50 Ranking 2011
- Clayton Christensen - Harvard Business School Professor
- W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne - Kim and Mauborgne won the Thinkers50 Strategy Award in 2011
- Vijay Govindarajan - Strategic Innovation Expert and World Renowned Professor
- Jim Collins - Author of "Good to Great," "Built to Last" and "How the Mighty Fall"
- Michael Porter - Foremost Authority on Strategy, Competition and Competitive Advantage; Creator of Shared Value Concept; Harvard Business School Professor
- Roger Martin - Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness, Academic Director, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- Marshall Goldsmith - Executive Educator, Coach, & Author
- Marcus Buckingham - Expert on Leadership & Management Practices
- Don Tapscott - Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum; Author, "The Digital Economy"; Co-author, "Macrowikinomics" and "Wikinomics"
- Malcolm Gladwell - Bestselling Author, "What the Dog Saw," "Outliers," "Blink," and "The Tipping Point"
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett - President of the Center for Talent Innovation, Economist and Columbia University Professor
- Lynda Gratton - Human Resources Thought Leader
- Nitin Nohria - Business Renaissance Man
- Robert Kaplan & David Norton - Robert S. Kaplan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, and Chairman of Professional Practice at Palladium Group, Inc. Kaplan joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the Carnegie-Mellon University bu
- Gary Hamel - Authority on Strategic and International Management
- Linda Hill - Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Co-Author, "Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation"
- Seth Godin - New York Times Bestselling Author, Purple Cow, Linchpin, Tribes & More
- Teresa Amabile - Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School
- Rita McGrath - Expert on Business Strategy in Uncertain Environments; Acclaimed Thinkers50 Thought Leader and Author
- Richard Rumelt - Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society at UCLA Anderson School of Management; The "Strategist's Strategist"
- Richard D’Aveni - Dartmouth Professor & Author
- Jeffrey Pfeffer - Stanford Professor & World-Renowned Management, Leadership and HR Scholar
- David Ulrich - Human Resource & Leadership Expert
- Tom Peters - Speaker, Professional Agitator at Tom Peters Company, and Bestselling Author, "In Search of Excellence"
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Author & Harvard University Professor Who Specializes in Strategy, Innovation and Leadership for Change
- Nirmalya Kumar - Professor of Marketing
- Pankaj Ghemawat - Leading Economist and Globalization Guru; Expert on Competitive Business Strategy; Author of "World 3.0"; Professor, Stern School of Business & IESE Business School
- Herminia Ibarra - Expert on Leadership and Transition; Insead Professor and Author of "Working Identity"
- Daniel Pink - #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, To Sell is Human, A Whole New Mind & Drive
- Henry Mintzberg - Internationally Renowned Academic and Author on Business and Management
- Costas Markides - Business & Strategy Expert
- Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
- Tammy Erickson - Executive Fellow, Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School; Award-winning Author and Expert on the Changing Workforce, Generations at Work, and Organizational Collaboration
- John Kotter - Leadership & Change Management Guru
- Amy Edmondson - Novartis Professor of Leadership & Management at Harvard Business School
- Kjell Nordström & Jonas Ridderstråle - Amid the madness and hyperbole surrounding the new economy, Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is a guru of the new world of business.
- Howard Gardner - Renowned Developmental & Cognitive Psychologist; Father of Multiple Intelligences Theory; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Henry Chesbrough - Professor, UC Berkeley Haas Business School
- Daniel Goleman - Internationally Recognized Psychologist & New York Times Bestselling Author
- Vineet Nayar - Business Management Visionary and Author, Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down
- Rakesh Khurana - Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School.
- Fons Trompenaars - Fons Trompenaars has been the Managing Director of the Centre for International Business Studies since 1989.
- Ken Robinson - Internationally Acclaimed Expert on Creativity and Innovation and Author, Finding Your Element, The Element and Out of Our Minds
- Andrew Kakabadse - One of the World’s Leading Experts on Top Teams, Boardroom Effectiveness and Governance Practice
- Stewart Friedman - Founding Director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project
- Adrian Slywotzky - Strategy Expert and Author of "Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It"
- Stephen Covey - Internationally Acclaimed Author, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
- Sheena Iyengar - Columbia University Business Professor & Bestselling Author, The Art of Choosing
- Umair Haque - Director of Havas Media Labs and Blogger for the Harvard Business Review
- Subir Chowdhury - Subir Chowdhury is one of the world's leading authorities in quality strategy.
