Accenture top 50 business intellectuals

In 2002, the Accenture consulting company compiled a list of the top 50 business intellectuals. From a list of 300 brainstormed by their staff, they found the top 50 by summing of the ranks of these rankings:

• Google hits
• The LexisNexis media databases to 1997
• Citations found in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index to 1997

The resulting list is:

1. Michael E. Porter
2. Tom Peters
3. Robert Reich
4. Peter Drucker
5. Peter Senge
6. Gary S. Becker
7. Gary Hamel
8. Alvin Toffler
9. Hal Varian
10. Daniel Goleman
11. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
12. Ronald Coase
13. Lester Thurow
14. Charles Handy
15. Henry Mintzberg
16. Michael Hammer
17. Stephen Covey
18. Warren Bennis
19. Bill Gates
20. Jeffrey Pfeffer
21. Philip Kotler
22. Robert C. Merton
23. C. K. Prahalad
24. Thomas H. Davenport
25. Don Tapscott
26. John Seely Brown
27. George Gilder
28. Kevin Kelly
29. Chris Argyris
30. Robert Kaplan
31. Esther Dyson
32. Edward de Bono
33. Jack Welch
34. John Kotter
35. Ken Blanchard
36. Edward Tufte
37. Kenichi Ohmae
38. Alfred D. Chandler
39. James MacGregor Burns
40. Sumantra Ghoshal
41. Edgar Schein
42. Myron S. Scholes
43. James March
44. Richard Branson
45. Anthony Robbins
46. Clayton Christensen
47. Michael Dell
48. John Naisbitt
49. David Teece
50. Don Peppers

See also

• List of business theorists
• The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll

References

• "Accenture Study Yields Top 50 'Business Intellectuals'". Accenture. 2002. http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enWeb&xd=_dyn/dynamicpressrelease_487.xml. Retrieved 2006-03-20.