World's Top 10 Business Thinkers

Micheal Porter

Michael Eugene Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a leading authority on company strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions. Michael Porter’s work is recognized in many governments, corporations and academic circles globally. He chairs Harvard Business School's program dedicated for newly appointed CEOs of very large corporations.

Roger Martin

Roger Martin is Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and an author of several business books. Martin has originated several important business concepts in use today, including integrative thinking. He has been recognized by several business publications as one of the field's most important thinkers. Martin is a regular columnist for Businessweek’s Innovation and Design Channel, the Washington Post’s On Leadership blog and the Financial Times’ Judgement Call column. He has focused much of his recent work and research on integrative thinking, business design and most recently corporate responsibility and more broadly the role of the corporation in our society. He has written four books, The Resonsibility Virus, The Opposable Mind, The Design of Business, and Fixing the Game and has co-authored two other books with Mihnea Moldoveanu, The Future of the MBA and Diaminds.