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

Vijay Govindarajan - 2013 Ranking: #5 2011 Ranking: #3 Shortlisted: 2013 Thinkers50 Innovation Award Winner: 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time.

Roger Martin - #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.

Lynda Gratton - #31 2013 Ranking: #14 2011 Ranking: #12

Jeffrey Pfeffer #17 2015 ranking- 2013 Ranking: #24 2011 Ranking: #22 Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award

Henry Chesbrough #24- 2013 Ranking: #37 2011 Ranking: #33 Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Innovation Award

Rita McGrath - #9. is a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and an expert on strategic business growth in uncertain environments.

Richard Rumelt- 2013 Ranking: #23 2011 Ranking: #20 Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Book Award Shortlisted for the 2013 Thinkers50 Strategy Award, Richard Rumelt is the Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Rumelt has been described as the “strategist’s strategist.” His most recent book is Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (2011).

Amy C. Edmondson #16 - Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.

Dr. Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School

Costas Markides, ranked 31 on the Thinkers50 2011 and shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award is professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School.

Subir Chowdhury, bestselling author and award-winning quality management consultant.

Julian Birkinshaw #42 Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School and the author of, among other titles, Reinventing Management (2010) and Becoming a Better Boss (2013). He is the co-founder of the Management Innovation Lab with Gary Hamel.

Richard D’Aveni #11- professor of strategic management at the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth University, created the concept of hyper-competition. Most recently his work has looked at commoditization and, in his 2012 book Strategic Capitalism, the competitive clash of nations.

Tamara J. Erickson #35 is a McKinsey Award-winning author, a leading expert on generations in the workplace, and a widely-respected expert on collaboration and innovation, the changing workforce, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations.

Anil K Gupta #47. Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, the University of Maryland and a visiting professor at INSEAD.

Andrew McAfee #26 - principal research scientist at MIT, and studies how digital technologies are changing business, the economy and society.

Vineet Nayar - # 40 2011 Ranking. Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Book Award

Clay Christensen - Foremost Authority on Innovation and Father of Disruptive Innovation Theory; Author of Revolutionary Book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”

Sydney Finkelstein - Professor of Management, and Faculty Director of the Tuck Executive Program

Liz Wiseman - recognized as being one of the ten most significant leadership thinkers on the planet.

Gary Hamel - A leading expert on futurism, innovation and change management

Dave Ulrich - Speaker, Author, Professor, HR & Leadership Guru

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#30. Whitney Johnson

#16. Eric Ries

#8. Adam Grant