Behind some of the world’s biggest trends in business are management thinkers whose research influences powerful executives and scrappy entrepreneurs alike.
You can credit Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, for example, for sowing the seeds that became Silicon Valley’s obsession with “disruption.” And there are INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, whose book “Blue Ocean Strategy” has sold 3.5 million copies and been translated into 42 languages over the past decade, making it one of the most popular business books of all time.