World's Top 50 Management Gurus

4 Indians among world's top 50 business gurus December 20, 2005 17:07 IST Last Updated: December 20, 2005 19:22 IST

Four Indians figure amongst the world's top 50 management gurus, according to The Thinkers 50 2005 -- a ranking by the European Foundation for Management Development. The four Indians on the elite list are University of Michigan professor C K Prahalad (ranked 3rd), CEO coach Ram Charan (ranked 24th), Tuck Business School professor Vijay Govindarajan (ranked 30th), and Harvard professor Rakesh Khurana (ranked 33rd). Michael Porter, who heads Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, has been voted the world's topmost living management guru.

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Michael Porter, Harvard strategy specialist Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft C K Prahalad, LBS strategy specialist Tom Peters, leadership consultant Jack Welch, GE's ex-CEO and celebrity Jim Collins, author of Good to Great Philip Kotler, Kellogg's marketing guru Henry Mintzberg, promotes managers not MBAs Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale, funky business exponents Charles Handy, British portfolio worker99 Richard Branson, entrepreneur and Virgin flyer Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert Thomas Stewart, Intellectual Capital author Gary Hamel, strategy consultant Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy duo Kenichi Ohmae, Japanese strategy master Patrick Dixon, futurist and change guru Stephen Covey, author of Knows The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard's change manager Edward De Bono, Lateral thinker and author Clayton Christensen, Harvard's new-tech guru Robert Kaplan & David Norton, Balanced Scorecard creators Peter Senge, learning organisation inventor Ram Charan, coach to the CEOs Fons Trompenaars, intercultural management man Russ Ackoff, specialist of systems thinking Warren Bennis, humanist leadership guru Chris Argyris, action and learning guru Michael Dell, Dell Computer's founder Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck's strategy innovator

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Malcolm Gladwell, Blink and Tipping Point guru Manfred Kets De Vries, Psychoanalytic economist Rakesh Khurana, Harvard labour market guru Lynda Gratton, LBS people and strategy guru Alan Greenspan, head of US Federal Reserve Edgar Schein, MIT organisational psychologist Ricardo Semler, Radical CEO of Semco Don Peppers, Customer relationship man Paul Krugman, economist and columnist Jeff Bezos, Amazon boss Andy Grove, one of the Intel founders Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence inventor Leif Edvinsson, professor of intellectual capital James Champy, Advocate of re-engineering Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones, authentic leaders Naomi Klein, No Logo author Geert Hofstede, cultural expert Larry Bossidy, chair of Honeywell Costas Markides, LBS strategy professor Geoffrey Moore, hi-tech marketing man

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest software company Microsoft, is considered the second most influential management guru in the world. The list names only four women amongst the top 50 business gurus. INSEAD professor Renée Mauborgne is ranked 15th, followed by Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter at 19th slot, London Business School's Lynda Gratton at 34th position and the No Logo author Naomi Klein at 46. Scott Adams, cartoonist and creator of comic strip Dilbert, has been ranked the 12th most influential management guru. GE's former chief executive Jack Welch, marketing expert Philip Kotler, Virgin boss Richard Branson, Dell Computers founder Michael Dell too find a place in the list. The Thinkers 50 ranking is based on votes of businessmen, consultants, scholars, and students. Peter Drucker, who died on November 11, had been ranked the world's top business guru for the past two years. The European Foundation for Management Development says that the list would also have included London Business School's Sumantra Ghoshal had he been alive.