8 Indians Among Top Global Management Thinkers

3. Nirmalya Kumar
Rank: 26
Professor, London Business School

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

He has authored around seven books that are related to marketing and business. He became a prominent figure after introducing a new culture to the world of business called ‘3Vs’. The 3Vs stands for valued customer, value proposition and value network. It was explained very well in one of his notable books ‘Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO's Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation’.

He was listed under the World's Best B-School Professors, and 50 Most Influential Business School Professors in the world.

4. Pankaj Ghemawat
Rank: 27
Professor, Iese Business School, Spain

Pankaj Ghemawat went to Harvard College at the age of 16. He was later allowed to take up his Ph.D programme in the same school at the age of 19.

After working at McKinsey & Company, Ghemawat spent 25 years at Harvard Business School as a full- time professor. In 1991, he was recognized as one of the youngest professors in the history of HBS.

From 2006, Ghemawat has been the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona.

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