Harvard tops 2013 Thinkers 50 Awards

Every two years the consulting team Crainer Dearlove elects the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world. This year Harvard professor Clayton Christensen made the top spot again after being given the prestigious award in 2011. Harvard’s Michael Porter ranked 7th, his colleague Linda Hill 8th and Harvard dean Nitin Nohria took out the 21st place.

Christensen’s top spot was followed by W. Chan Kim and Renée Maborgne, both professors at Insead business school who were ranked 2^nd. Insead was recognized highly overall as two more members of faculty were listed – Herminia Ibarra was ranked on 9^th place and Morton Hansen on 28^th.

Third place of the competition was awarded to Roger Martin, the former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Read interviews with two further winners on MBA Channel:

Pankaj Ghemawat from IESE Business School who ranked 11^th (http://www.mba-channel.com/channel/article/we-are-not-as-cosmopolitan-as-we-assume) and

Lynda Gratton from London Business School (http://www.mba-channel.com/channel/article/the-future-of-our-work) who ranked 14^{th .}

The award ceremony for the biennial competition to honour the world’s best minds in management, leadership and innovation, global solutions and future thinking, was held in London in November.

http://www.thinkers50.com/t50-ranking/2013-2/