Accenture Study Yields Top 50 `Business Intellectuals' Ranking of Top Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics.Business and Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002 Who are our best-known, highest-profile business intellectuals? Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change has compiled an intriguing ranking of the top 50 living business gurus, most of whom are business school academics, consultants, journalists or business executives. "For the purposes of this study, we define business intellectuals as influential thinkers and writers on business management topics," said Tom Davenport, an Accenture partner and director of the Institute, which conducts original research focused on providing insight and ideas into strategic business issues. The list was compiled as part of a broader study on the circulation of new ideas "New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie Rock act The Dykeenies. It was first released as a Double A-side with "Will It Happen Tonight?" on July 17, 2006. The band also recorded a video for the track. in business. A team of Institute researchers headed by Davenport conducted the study, which took seven months to complete. "The list is sure to cause some discussion around the water coolers of the business world," said Davenport. "Yet it does give an objective, quantitative ranking of those individuals in the business arena whose ideas, writings, and teachings are forefront in the public consciousness." Topping the list is Michael E. Porter, who has been called the world's most influential business school academic. The Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. professor and strategy expert is the author of Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, which is required reading for every Harvard MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration student Finishing tied for second are Tom Peters and Robert Reich. Peters is the management consultant who 20 years ago wrote In Search of Excellence, the bestseller on what it takes to compete and win in the world of business. Reich is the former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law , a social and economic policy professor at Brandeis University Brandeis University, at Waltham, Mass.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1948. Although Brandeis was founded by members of the American Jewish community, the university operates as an independent, nonsectarian institution. , author of several books, including The Future of Success, and Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick. Constitutional role . Completing the top 10 are: - Web hits using the Google search. - Media mentions using the three Lexis/Nexis databases (major newspapers, magazine stories and transcripts) from April 1997 The list uses the same criteria followed by Richard A. Posner in his book Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Overall ranking is based on the sum of ranks in three separate groupings for each candidate based on the following: - Web hits using the Google search. - Media mentions using the three Lexis/Nexis databases (major newspapers, magazine stories and transcripts) from April 1997 - April 2002. - Scholarly citations found in the Science Citation and Social Sciences Citation indices during 1997-2002. Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change began by compiling a list of approximately 300 names from various subjective guru rankings, and author lists of leading books and popular Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and articles. The Business Intellectual rankings will also appear in a book written by Davenport and Laurence Prusak that is scheduled for publication by Harvard Business School Press in Spring 2003. The rankings will be expanded in the book. The only women in the top 50 are Rosabeth Moss Kanter (11), a professor at Harvard and former editor of the Harvard Business Review, who is an expert on organizational change; and Esther Dyson  should be added to this article, to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.Please discuss this issue on the talk page. (31), chairman of Edventure Holdings. The top non-US resident named on the list is Charles Handy Charles Handy (born 1932) is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio worker" and the "Shamrock Organization" (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and (14), the UK-based author of The Age of Unreason and Age of Paradox. The top-ranking business executive is Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , Microsoft founder and chairman (19). Gates finished with the highest ranking in the media mentions and Google hits categories. "Peter Drucker Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909–November 11, 2005) was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. is clearly a globally recognized business guru, but his ranking wasn't higher because he received fewer hits in non-business categories. On the other hand, I was surprised to see Reich's ranking, which I attribute to the fact that he scored high in both the business guru list and the public intellectuals list," said Davenport, who as a prolific author, magazine writer and business school professor, was ranked 24 on the list. "I was pleased to see few purveyors of real schlock schlock also shlock Slang n. Something, such as merchandise or literature, that is inferior or shoddy. adj. Of inferior quality; cheap or shoddy. in the high ranks, yet disappointed to see so few women on the list and virtually all Americans." Other names in the top 50 include Michael Hammer Michael Martin Hammer is one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR). Career An engineer by training, he is the proponent of a process oriented view of business management. He earned BS, MS, and Ph.D. , co-author of Reengineering the Corporation (16); Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People (18); Jack Welch For the illustrator named Jack Welch, see Jack Welch (illustrator) John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born on November 19 1935 , the former chairman of General Electric (33); Ken Blanchard, author of One Minute Manager (35); Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 , the founder of Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines (44); Anthony Robbins, the motivational speaker and author of the Personal Power series (45): and Michael Dell, the founder and chairman of Dell Computers (47). 1 Michael E. Porter 2 Tom Peters 3 Robert Reich 4 Peter Drucker 5 Peter Senge 6 Gary S. Becker 7 Gary Hamel 8 Alvin Toffler 9 Hal Varian 10 Daniel Goleman 11 Rosabeth Moss Kanter 12 Ronald Coase 13 Lester Thurow 14 Charles Handy 15 Henry Mintzberg 16 Michael Hammer 17 Stephen Covey 18 Warren Bennis 19 Bill Gates 20 Jeffrey Pfeffer 21 Philip Kotler 22 Robert C. Merton 23 C. K. Prahalad 24 Thomas H. Davenport 25 Don Tapscott 26 John Seely Brown 27 George Gilder 28 Kevin Kelly 29 Chris Argyris 30 Robert Kaplan 31 Esther Dyson 32 Edward De Bono 33 Jack Welch 34 John Kotter 35 Ken Blanchard 36 Edward Tufte 37 Kenichi Ohmae 38 Alfred Chandler 39 James MacGregor Burns 40 Sumantra Ghoshal 41 Edgar Schein 42 Myron S. Scholes 43 James March 44 Richard Branson 45 Anthony Robbins 46 Clay(ton) Christensen 47 Michael Dell 48 John Naisbitt 49 David Teece 50 Don Peppers About Accenture Accenture is the world's leading management consulting and technology services organization. Through its network of businesses approach - in which the company enhances its consulting and outsourcing expertise through alliances, affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. and other capabilities - Accenture delivers innovations that help clients across all industries quickly realize their visions. With more than 75,000 people in 47 countries, the company generated net revenues of $11.44 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2001. Its home page is www.accenture.com. |
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