Prof. Tom Davenport, Babson Executive Education researcher Jim Wilson and Babson MBA student Josh Herzig-Marx have produced a list of the top management gurus. This list was featured in the May 5th Wall Street Journal here and here.
The top five are
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Gary Hamel, author of The Future of Management;
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Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist;
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Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman;
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Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink; and
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Howard Gardner, Harvard professor.
The ranking is based on Google hits media mentions in LexisNexis, and academic citations. For information on the methodology, visit WSJ.
