The Thinkers50 Ranking 2015
- Michael Porter - Foremost Authority on Strategy, Competition and Competitive Advantage; Creator of Shared Value Concept; Harvard Business School Professor
- Clayton Christensen - Harvard Business School Professor
- W Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne - Kim and Mauborgne won the Thinkers50 Strategy Award in 2011.
- Don Tapscott - Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum; Author, "The Digital Economy"; Co-author, "Macrowikinomics" and "Wikinomics"
- Marshall Goldsmith - Executive Educator, Coach, & Author
- Linda Hill - Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Co-Author, "Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation"
- Roger L Martin - Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness, Academic Director, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- Herminia Ibarra - Expert on Leadership and Transition; Insead Professor and Author of "Working Identity"
- Rita G McGrath - Expert on Business Strategy in Uncertain Environments; Acclaimed Thinkers50 Thought Leader and Author
- Dan Pink - #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, To Sell is Human, A Whole New Mind & Drive
- Richard A D’Aveni - Dartmouth Professor & Author
- Eric Ries - Entrepreneur and Best-Selling Author of "The Lean Startup"
- Vijay Govindarajan - Strategic Innovation Expert and World Renowned Professor
- Richard Florida - Best-Selling Author & Urbanist
- Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur - Osterwalder and Pigneur are the authors of Business Model Generation.
- Amy C Edmondson - Novartis Professor of Leadership & Management at Harvard Business School
- Jeffrey Pfeffer - Stanford Professor & World-Renowned Management, Leadership and HR Scholar
- Martin Lindstrom - International Speaker, Advisor, Master Brand Builder and New York Times Best-Selling Author of 7 Titles, Translated Into 50 Languages Including Buyology, Brandwashed and BrandSense; Voted by TIME Magazine as "One of the World's Most Influential People"
- 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
- Steve Blank - Serial Entrepreneur
- Teresa Amabile - Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School
- Daniel Goleman - Internationally Recognized Psychologist & New York Times Bestselling Author
- Seth Godin - New York Times Bestselling Author, Purple Cow, Linchpin, Tribes & More
- Henry Chesbrough - Professor, UC Berkeley Haas Business School
- Adam Grant - CEO, Campus Commandos
- Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
- Erik Brynjolfsson - Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
- Dave Ulrich - Rensis Likert Professor of Business, University of Michigan; Co-founder, The RBL Group
- Jim Collins - Author of "Good to Great," "Built to Last" and "How the Mighty Fall"
- Stew Friedman - Wharton Professor of Management, Author, Leadership Development and Work/Life Integration Expert
- Gary Hamel - Authority on Strategic and International Management
- Lynda Gratton - Human Resources Thought Leader
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett - President of the Center for Talent Innovation, Economist and Columbia University Professor
- Fons Trompenaars - Fons Trompenaars has been the Managing Director of the Centre for International Business Studies since 1989.
- Morten T Hansen - Author, Blogger.
- 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
- Jennifer Aaker - Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Author, "The Dragonfly Effect"
- John P Kotter - Leadership & Change Management Guru
- Zhang Ruimin - Chinese businessman and chief executive officer of Haier Group.
- Subir Chowdhury - Subir Chowdhury is one of the world's leading authorities in quality strategy.
- Nirmalya Kumar - Professor of Marketing
- Sydney Finkelstein - Author of Why Smart Executives Fail. Management strategy speaker.
- Julian Birkinshaw - Renowned Strategy & Leadership Expert
- Liz Wiseman - President of The Wiseman Group & Author of the Best-seller MULTIPLIERS
- Doug Ready - Founder and CEO of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research and Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management
- Umair Haque - Director of Havas Media Labs and Blogger for the Harvard Business Review
- Hal Gregersen - Global Authority on Building Innovative Leaders and Companies; Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center; Co-author, “The Innovator’s DNA”
- Anil K Gupta - Michael Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business; Author of Global Strategies for Emerging Asia
- Nilofer Merchant - CEO, Author & Strategist
- Whitney Johnson - Leading Thinker on Driving Innovation Via Personal Disruption & Co-Founder of Rose Park Advisors with Clayton Christensen
- Amy Cuddy - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School; Behavioral Scientist and Expert on Nonverbal Behavior, Power and Leadership
