Media Coverage

In search of the next generation of management stars

The Independent, June 2010
Peter Brown looks at the importance of management gurus to business schools and their students.

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Prahalad remains the world No. 1

Times Online, October 2009
Indian-born management guru tops The Thinkers 50 poll.

Times Online

Leaders Lounge > Thinker's 50

Business.in.com, October 2009
Articles relating to the Thinker's 50, including Integrative Thinking and Henry Mintzberg's Leadership Formulas.

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Thinker’s 50: Howard Gardner

The Times Online, July 2009
Professor Gardner is the John H. and Elizabeth A. Hobbs professor of cognition and education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University.

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Thinker’s 50: Niall Ferguson

The Times Online, July 2009
Professor Ferguson’s bestselling book and television series The Ascent of Money has elevated his reputation as a business thinker.

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Thinker’s 50: Roger Martin

The Times Online, July 2009
Roger Martin is the current Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Thinker’s 50: CK Prahalad

The Times Online, July 2009
The man who introduced the term 'core competencies' to the management lexicon shares his thoughts on 'co-creation'.

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Business on the Brain

The Times Online, November 2007
Indian-born management guru tops The Thinkers 50 poll of the most influential living business people.

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World’s No. 1 guru is an Indian

The Times of India, Nov 2007
Mumbai: India gave the world the word “guru”. And now, an Indian has been declared the world’s foremost management guru. C K Prahalad, professor at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M Ross School of Business, has been crowned the greatest management thinker alive by Thinkers 50, an annual ranking of the top 50 management thought leaders in the world.

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The Managers Thinkers Hall of Fame

The Times of India, Nov 2007
In association with Suntop Media, TOI exclusively brings you the findings of this year's Thinkers 50 rankings. For the first time in the history of this annual ranking of management thinkers, an Indian - C K Prahalad - has been named the most influential management thinker alive. How have the others fared? Whose ideas are in vogue today? Who has dropped off the charts?

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The Most Influential Management Gurus

The Times, November 2005
Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer assess the list of thinkers after the death of Peter Drucker leads to a change at No 1.

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