8 Indians Amongst World's Top Management Gurus

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8 Indians amongst world's top management gurus

Who shapes the future of global business? The executives in theboardroom, the shareholders or the business gurus?According to the the Thinkers 50 list, published once every two years,

management innovators and business professors are the real thinkers.

These are people known little to the general public but revered throughout the

business world.

In 2009 C K Prahalad, the Indian-born professor of corporate strategy at the

University of Michigan's Ross School of Business was the winner. this yeareight Indians feature in this list.

So who is the most influential business thinker on earth right now?

Vijay Govindarajan

2011 Ranking: 3

Winner: 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award

Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C Daum 1924 professor of internationalbusiness at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

He is one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation.


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Govindarajan has published nine books including international bestsellers Ten Rules

for Strategic Innovatorsand The Other Side of Innovation.

His most recent book, The Other Side of Innovation focuses on how to turn an

innovative idea into a successful commercial business.

Govindarajan is also responsible for posing the question that sparked a global

challenge to build a $300 house.

Nitin Nohria

2011 Ranking: 13

Nohria is the dean of Harvard Business School.

Prior to his appointment as dean, Nohria served in a number of senior positions at

HBS including co-chair of the Leadership Initiative; senior associate dean of faculty

development; and head of the organisational behavior unit.

Particular areas of research interest and expertise include motivation; leadership;

corporate transformation and accountability; and sustainable economic and human

performance.

Nohria is the author, co-author or co-editor of 16 books and over 50 journal articles,

book chapters and working papers.


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Nirmalya Kumar

2011 Ranking: 26

Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Global Village Award

Kumar is a professor of marketing at London Business School, where he is also co-director of the Aditya Birla India Center.

His work focuses on marketing and the rise of India as an economic force.

Kumar is the author of several books.

More recently, he has written about India and its rise to economic superpower status.

In India's Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking on the World (2009),

Kumar provides an insider's guide to doing business with Indian leaders and

companies.

A keen collector of the work of Indian artist Jamini Roy, Kumar is said to have the

largest collection of Roy paintings outside India.


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Pankaj Ghemawat

2011 Ranking: 27

Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Book Award

Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE BusinessSchool, in Spain.

Prior to that he was the youngest full professor ever appointed at Harvard Business

School.

Best known for his work on globalisation, Ghemawat's books include Games

businesses play: Cases and models (1997); Creating value through

international strategy (2005); Redefining global strategy; Crossing borders in a

world where differences still matter (2007); and Strategy and the business

landscape (2009).

He refutes the idea that there is a single global economy. We live, he says, in a

semi-globalized world at best.

Regional differences exist and matter, argues Ghemawat, and the unevenness and

differences that exist from region to region are a potential source of commercial

advantage.


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Vineet Nayar

2011 Ranking: 40

Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Book Award

Nayar is the vice chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies, a global informationtechnology services company based in India.

Nayar's success has been fuelled by his unconventional management philosophy of

putting his employees first, and customers second.

By making management accountable to the employees, he has driven HCL to

greater success, a journey related in his book Employees First, Customers

Second (2010) in which he details how he set about his management

revolution.

Among his less conventional management techniques, Nayar makes a point of

dancing at the company's employee wide Direction event, both on stage and among

the crowd. It helps to remove the barriers between employee and CEO, he says.

Under Nayar, HCL has won awards for best employer and most influential up and

coming company.


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Rakesh Khurana

2011 Ranking: 41

Khurana is the Marvin Bower professor of leadership development at the HarvardBusiness School.

Khurana's main areas of interest are concerned with macro-organizational theory

and the dynamics of executive labor markets, and he is particularly well known for

his work on leadership and CEOs.

The author and editor of four books, and many articles on the executive labour

markets and management education, Khurana is probably best known for Searching

for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs.


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Sheena Iyengar

2011 Ranking: 48

Iyengar is the S T Lee Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, andresearch director of the Jerome A Chazen Institute of International Business.

Iyengar is best known for her work on choice. She received the Best Dissertation

Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in 1998, for her

dissertation, "Choice and Its Discontents."

Iyengar's award winning book, The Art of Choosingwas published in 2010.


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Subir Chowdhury

2011 Ranking: 50

Chowdhury is chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group and a globally respectedquality expert and strategist.

He advises CEOs and senior leaders of Fortune 100 companies as well as

organizations in the public, private and not-for profit sectors all over the world,

helping them make quality a part of their business culture.

His book The Ice Cream Maker (2005) is a business novella about Pete and the

ice cream factory he manages; in which he introduces the next generation

management system - LEO - Listen, Enrich and Optimize.

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