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List of the most influential people in Business,

#551

Bernardo Donoso

Bernardo Donoso

#89845

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Bernardo Alfonso Modesto Donoso Riveros is a Chilean scholar and researcher who served as head of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso during the first years of the transition to democracy.

#552

Andrew Kakabadse

#95678

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Andrew Kakabadse is professor of governance and leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading and emeritus professor at Cranfield University School of Management. He has consulted and lectured in the UK, Europe, the US, SE Asia, China, Japan, Russia, Georgia, the Gulf states and Australia. He has also published 32 books, over 200 journal articles and 18 monographs. Andrew has held positions on the boards of a number of companies and has also been an adviser to a Channel 4 business series. He is currently embarked on a major world study of boardroom effectiveness and governance practice.

#553

Dorothy Elliott Leidner

#114835

Overall Influence

#554

Alessandro Zattoni

#102258

Overall Influence

Alessandro Zattoni is Professor of Strategy at the Department of Business and Management of the LUISS Business School, Rome, Italy. Career He has been Professor of Management at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy, and Professor of Corporate Governance at Bocconi University, where he has also been Director of the Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management Department, and he currently is Director of the Executive Education Open Program Division of SDA Bocconi School of Management.

#555

Samuel Paul Garner

#104492

Overall Influence

1910 - 1996 (86 years)

Samuel Paul Garner was an American accounting scholar, and Professor at the University of Alabama, known for his work "Evolution of cost accounting to 1925." Biography Born in Yadkinville, North Carolina to Samuel W. and Ila Jane Garner, Garner at Duke University obtained his AB in 1932, and his AM in 1934. He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin where he obtained his PhD in 1940 under supervision of George Hillis Newlove. He was awarded an honorary degree by the Pusan National University, and by the University of Alabama in 1971.

#556

Richard K. Fleischman

#104567

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Richard K. Fleischman is an American accounting scholar and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the John Carroll University, known for his work on accounting history. Life and work Fleischman obtained his BA in history from Harvard College, and then moved to the State University of New York Buffalo, where he obtained his MA, his PhD in history, and an MBA with an accounting emphasis.

#557

David B. Ashley

#52724

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

David Brian Ashley was the eighth president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, appointed to the position on July 1, 2006 and relieved of his duties by the Board of Regents on July 10, 2009. Ashley attended MIT, becoming a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and graduated in 1973. His bachelor's degree and master's degree, also of MIT, are both in civil engineering; he has a second master's degree and a doctorate from Stanford University. He served as the founding executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Merced starting in 2001 and was the dean of the College...

#558

Robert W. Palmatier

#115355

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Robert W. Palmatier is Professor of Marketing and John C. Narver Chair of Business Administration at the Foster School at the University of Washington. He is founder and research director of the Sales and Marketing Strategy Institute .

#559

George Veras

#80468

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

George James Veras was the producer of NFL Today on CBS from 1981-1993, and vice-president of production and broadcasting for the Cleveland Browns from 2004-2007. His productions have won 10 Emmy Awards. He is the former president and CEO of Pro Football Hall of Fame Enterprises, president of Veras Communications, Inc. , and adjunct professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

#560

Jagmohan Raju

#89506

Overall Influence

Jagmohan Raju is an American marketing professor and author. He is the Joseph J. Aresty Professor and Director of the Wharton-Indian School of Business Program at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Raju is internationally known for his research on Pricing. He is the author of the book Smart Pricing.

#561

Andrea Nolan

#32217

Overall Influence

Andrea Nolan is Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Principal & Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University. In 1999, she was the first woman ever appointed to head a British veterinary school.

#562

Elizabeth A. Mannix

#79848

Overall Influence

Elizabeth A. Mannix is the professor of Management and Organizations at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Chicago.

#563

Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries

#115809

Overall Influence

#564

Dr David M. Eddy

#115889

Overall Influence

#565

Gordon Robert Foxall

#116143

Overall Influence

#566

Whatarangi Winiata

#51363

Overall Influence

Whatarangi Winiata is a New Zealand accountant, academic, and Māori leader. From 1994 to 2007, he was Chief Executive of Te Wānanga o Raukawa, a Māori tertiary education institution. He had been Professor of Accountancy at the Victoria University of Wellington from 1974. He is a former President of the Māori Party, serving from the party's creation in 2004 to 2009.

#567

Sergio Marchionne

Sergio Marchionne

#89964

Overall Influence

1952 - 2018 (66 years)

Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry.

#568

Lorraine Sterritt

#61267

Overall Influence

Lorraine Sterritt is an Irish-American academic administrator serving as the 17th president of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. Early life and education Sterritt was born and raised in Northern Ireland. She earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts degree in French from Queen's University Belfast, studying as a member of the Stranmillis University College. She then earned another master's degree and PhD in French from Princeton University.

#569

Ding Lieyun

#16424

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Ding Lieyun is a Chinese management scientist and educator. He served as the president of Northeastern University and is the current president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2015.

#570

Lawrence E. Fouraker

#106708

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Lawrence E. Fouraker was the sixth dean of the Harvard Business School . Born in Bryan, Texas, he attended Texas A&M University for his bachelor's degree and received his PhD from The University of Colorado at Boulder.

#571

S Prakash Tiwari

#75102

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

S Prakash Tiwari is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist and a former Deputy Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research . He was Vice-Chancellor of Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, and Director of National Academy of Agricultural Research Management , Hyderabad. He is also a former director of National Research Centre on Soybean, Indore.

#572

Roland Rust

#117215

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Roland Rust is an American business professor, author and consultant. Professional background and accomplishments Rust is Distinguished University Professor and holds the David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, the first business professor to be named a Distinguished University Professor at Maryland. He is one of two people named a Fellow of the American Marketing Association and the European Marketing Academy.

#573

James L. Voss

#50803

Overall Influence

1934 - 2013 (79 years)

James Leo Voss was an American veterinarian, equine specialist, and dean of Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Early years Born in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1934, Voss grew up on his family's farm in Orchard Mesa. Graduating from Grand Junction High School in 1952, he married Kathleen Alice "Kay" Claxton in 1954. He earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Colorado A&M in 1958 and later obtained a master's degree at CSU in 1966. He remained at CSU to teach in the Department of Clinical Sciences and work as an equine ambulatory cli...

#574

Dan Amiram

#101472

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Dan Amiram is the Dean and the Joseph Safra Capital markets and Financial Institutions Chaired professor of Business at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. He also serves as the head of the Fintech concentration in the MBA program. He served and currently serves on public companies' board of directors in the United States and Israel.

#575

Mike Leander

#64474

Overall Influence

1941 - 1996 (55 years)

Michael George Farr , known professionally as Mike Leander, was a British arranger, songwriter and record producer. He worked variously with Cliff Richard, The Beatles, David McWilliams , Gary Glitter, the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Ben E. King, the Drifters, and Gene Pitney. Leander also wrote the score for the films Privilege and Run a Crooked Mile .

#576

Jay R. Ritter

#118230

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

#577

Peter Likins

#26564

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Peter William Likins was president of the University of Arizona from 1997 until his retirement in summer 2006. Previous posts in order of most recent were:President of Lehigh UniversityProvost for professional schools at Columbia University,Dean of Columbia's engineering school.At each of these universities, Likins was a professor of engineering.

#578

Dennis Arnold. Gioia

#118523

Overall Influence

#579

Min Basadur

#95185

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Marino Sidney Basadur is a teacher, consultant and researcher best known for his work in applied creativity and as the developer Simplexity Thinking System for improving workplace innovation & creativity. He is president of Basadur Applied Creativity and professor emeritus of organizational behavior and innovation at McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Business.

#580

Dilip Bal Madan

#118685

Overall Influence

#581

Manju Puri

#71731

Overall Influence

Manju Puri is an economist who currently works as the J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is an editor at the Review of Financial Studies and currently the director of the American Finance Association.

#582

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg

#89256

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. Sandberg served as chief operating officer of Meta Platforms, a position from which she stepped down in August 2022. She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org. In 2008, she was made COO at Facebook, becoming the company's second-highest ranking official. In June 2012, she was elected to Facebook's board of directors, becoming the first woman to serve on its board. As head of the company's advertising business, Sandberg was credited for making the company profitable. Prior to joining Facebook as its COO, Sandber...

#583

Hayat Kabasakal

#81196

Overall Influence

Hayat Kabasakal is a Turkish management academic researching leadership, culture, gender, disaster management, and organizational behavior. She is a professor in the management department at Boğaziçi University.

#584

Reid Hoffman

#80151

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners and a co-founder of Inflection AI.

#585

Daniel Ray Fesenmaier

#119436

Overall Influence

#586

Thomas J. Burns

#94900

Overall Influence

1923 - 1996 (73 years)

Thomas Junior Burns was an American accounting scholar and Professor of accounting at Ohio State University, known for his contributions to accounting education. Biography Born in Arena, Wisconsin, Burns obtained his BA degree from University of Wisconsin, while working at the Gisholt Machine Company. From early 1943 to late 1945 he served in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. Returning to University of Wisconsin, he obtained his BBA in accounting and American history in 1950. Subsequently, he obtained his CPA license for the State of Wisconsin in 1952, his MBA from the Uni...

#587

Elizabeth Pattey

#47345

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Elizabeth Pattey is a principal research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the leader of the micrometeorology laboratory at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre. Her research supports nationwide improvement in the environmental performance of agriculture, in support of the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change and Canada’s Clean Air Act. She is the co-author for over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and her areas of expertise include trace gas flux measurement techniques, process-based models, and remote-sensing applications.

#588

Thaleia Zariphopoulou

#52267

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Thaleia Zariphopoulou is a Greek-American mathematician specializing in mathematical finance. She is the Chair in Mathematics and the V. H. Neuhaus Centennial Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin.

#589

Toto Cutugno

#47567

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records ...

#590

Brady J. Deaton

Brady J. Deaton

#29290

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Brady J. Deaton, is an American educator and the former chancellor of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Early life and education Deaton was born on August 25, 1942. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kentucky in 1966 and a Master's Degree in Diplomacy and International Commerce from the same institution in 1968. From there, he moved to the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a second master's degree in 1970 and, two years later, a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. Deaton was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nan, Thailand from 1962-1964.

#591

Robert M. Dammon

#95564

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Robert M. Dammon is an American professor and academic administrator. He is the dean of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Early life Robert M. Dammon was born in 1956 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1978. He went on to earn a master in business administration from its Wisconsin School of Business in 1980 and a PhD in financial economics in 1984.

#592

Nasrin Husseini

#23816

Overall Influence

Nasrin Husseini is an Afghan-born Canadian advocate of refugees, veterinary researcher, and a food activist, working to remake the food system. Her research focuses on advancing animal health through breeding and improving the productivity of the food derived from farm animals. In 2021, she was part of the 100 Women BBC list, which includes the most inspiring and influential women in the world.

#593

Christine Oliver

#120846

Overall Influence

#594

Jane Parker

#103125

Overall Influence

Jane Parker is a New Zealand employment relations academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. Academic career After completing a BA/BCom and Masters at the University of Auckland, Parker wrote a 2000 PhD titled 'Women's equality in British unions : the roles and impacts of women's group organising' at the University of Warwick. While teaching and researching at Warwick Business School, she worked as the UK contributing editor for the European Working Conditions Observatory of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions . She returned to ...

#595

R. Duane Ireland

#121482

Overall Influence

#596

Eddie Obeng

#92832

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Edward David Asihene Obeng is a British organisational theorist, educator, and author, who serves as a professor at Henley Business School and Hult International Business School's Ashridge Executive Education. Obeng founded Pentacle and serves as its executive director. Obeng has been described variously as "a leading revolutionary" and "an agent provocateur" by the Financial Times, and by Abbey National as their "secret weapon".

#597

Conrad Black

#79634

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour , is a Canadian and British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadian manufacturing, retail and media businesses through part-ownership of the holding company Ravelston Corporation. In 1978, two years after their father's death, Conrad and his older brother Montegu took majority control of Ravelston. Over the next seven years, Conrad Black sold off most of their non-media holdings in order to focus on newspaper publishing. Black controlled Hol...

#598

David Glen Mick

#103172

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

David Glen Mick is the Robert Hill Carter Professor in Marketing in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He is former editor of the Journal of Consumer Research , past President of the Association for Consumer Research , and an elected fellow of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He is credited with being a co-founder in 2005 of Transformative Consumer Research at the Association for Consumer Research. In general, Mick's research has focused on the nature and role of meaning and communication in consumer behavior. More specifically, he has addressed semiotics and...

#599

Joseph M. Juran

Joseph M. Juran

#92257

Overall Influence

1904 - 2008 (104 years)

Joseph Moses Juran was a Romanian-born American engineer, management consultant and author. He was an advocate for quality and quality management and wrote several books on the topics. He was the brother of Academy Award winner Nathan Juran.

#600

Bobby Alton. Stewart

#122019

Overall Influence

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