10 Individuals who Influence Corporate World

9. Shoshana Zuboff

Retired Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS)

Zuboff is named among the first tenured women at HBS. She has written several articles, like – ‘The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism’ and ‘Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism.’ Her research articles have been highly acclaimed by the media for their depth and insight. It is so popular among people that it has been translated in many languages. Strategy+Business ranked her article - The Support Economy – among the top 10 business books of 2003. The article was also ranked number 1 in the “Values” category. BusinessWeek called it “number one idea” in its “Twenty Five Ideas for a Changing World”. Inc. magazine called it “the new-new thing” in its anniversary issue on entrepreneurship. Strategy+Business also called Zuboff among the eleven most original business thinkers of the world in 2006.