2009 Thinkers50 Ranking & Awards
London, October 12, 2009
Ranking of Management Thinkers
#1 C. K. Prahalad
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
#2 Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is an award winning staff writer for the New Yorker magazine.
#3 Paul Krugman
American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times.
#4 Steve Jobs
American business magnate, entrepreneur, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor.
#5 W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Inventors of the ground-breaking “blue ocean strategy”, paving the way for organizations to break out of fixed market boundaries, and create a whole new space.