The Thinkers 50 Ranking 2015

The Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years and is the essential guide to which thinkers and which ideas matter now.

Top ranked thinker 2015: Michael Porter

World-renowned expert on competiveness and originator of the Five Forces Framework. Harvard professor.

#2: Clayton Christensen
Originator of the theory of disruptive innovation and the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. Harvard professor.

#3: W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Creators of Blue Ocean Strategy and best-selling book of the same name. Insead professors.

#4: Don Tapscott
Authority on the social and economic impact of technology, and originator of global business solutions concept. Adjunct professor at Rotman School of Management.

#5: Marshall Goldsmith
Corporate America’s leading executive coach and best-selling author of Triggers. Adjunct professor at Tuck Business School, Dartmouth College.

#6: Linda Hill
Internationally recognised leadership expert and author of Collective Genius. Harvard professor.

#7: Roger Martin
World authority on competiveness and strategy. Former dean and now Institute Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute at Rotman School of Management.

• 8 Herminia Ibarra (9)
• 9 Rita G McGrath (6)
• 10 Dan Pink (13)
• 11 Richard A D’Aveni (17)
• 12 Eric Ries (-)
• 13 Vijay Govindarajan (5)
• 14 Richard Florida (25)
• 15 Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (-)
• 16 Amy C Edmondson (15)
• 17 Jeffrey Pfeffer (24)
• 18 Martin Lindstrom (-)
• 19 Pankaj Ghemawat (11)
• 20 Steve Blank (-)
• 21 Teresa Amabile (22)
• 22 Daniel Goleman (36)
• 23 Seth Godin (-)
• 24 Henry Chesbrough (37)
• 25 Adam Grant (-)
• 26 Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee (-)
• 27 Dave Ulrich (30)
• 28 Jim Collins (12)
• 29 Stew Friedman (27)
• 30 Gary Hamel (19)
• 31 Lynda Gratton (14)
• 32 Sylvia Ann Hewlett (16)
• 33 Fons Trompenaars (41)
• 34 Morten T Hansen (28)
• 35 Tammy Erickson (29)
• 36 Jennifer Aaker (-)
• 37 John P Kotter (32)
• 38 Zhang Ruimin (-)
• 39 Subir Chowdhury (40)
• 40 Nirmalya Kumar (20)
• 41 Sydney Finkelstein (43)
• 42 Julian Birkinshaw (39)
• 43 Liz Wiseman (48)
• 44 Doug Ready (49)
• 45 Umair Haque (35)
• 46 Hal Gregersen (-)
• 47 Anil K Gupta (44)
• 48 Nilofer Merchant (-)
• 49 Whitney Johnson (-)
• 50 Amy Cuddy (-)

NOTE CREDIT: http://thinkers50.com/t50-ranking/2015-2/