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List of the most influential people in Business,

#201

Noel Capon

#42261

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Noel Capon is an American organizational theorist, and the R.C. Kopf Professor of International Marketing at Columbia Business School. Biography Capon received his BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University College London his PhD from Manchester Business School, his MBA from Harvard University and another PhD from Columbia University in 1975 with a thesis entitled "Experimental evaluation of alternative message variables in personal selling and direct mail advertising".

#202

Frank Miller

#13586

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, comic book writer, and screenwriter known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil, for which he created the character Elektra, and subsequent Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300.

#203

Thomas Schneeweis

#44561

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Thomas Schneeweis, professor of finance at the School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, is also the director of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets there.

#204

Christopher Ahlberg

#19639

Overall Influence

Christopher Ahlberg, born 1968, is a Swedish/American computer scientist and executive. Ahlberg is the co-founder and CEO of Recorded Future, as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Hult International Business School.

#205

William James Reddin

#32674

Overall Influence

1930 - 1999 (69 years)

William James Reddin also known as Bill Reddin was a British-born management behavioralist, theorist, writer, and consultant. His published works examined and explained how managers in profit and non-profit organizations behaved under certain situations and conditions. The focus of his work was to understand to what extent managers were effective in their role and successful in managing situations to have the right impact on the organization's objectives.

#206

Neeli Bendapudi

Neeli Bendapudi

#8609

Overall Influence

Neeli Bendapudi is an American academic administrator who is the 19th president of Pennsylvania State University. From 2018 until 2021, she served as the 18th president of the University of Louisville. In December 2021, Penn State announced Bendapudi as the university's president; she succeeded Eric J. Barron following his retirement. She assumed office in May 2022 and is the first woman and the first non-white person to serve as Penn State's president.

#207

Alnoor Bhimani

#43914

Overall Influence

Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the South Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science . He is former Head of the Department of Accounting and the Founding Director of LSE Entrepreneurship. Bhimani's academic work covers financial management and digitalisation; managerial accounting and strategic finance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; and global development and governance issues.

#208

Rodney Turner

#42605

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

John Rodney Turner is a British/New Zealand organizational theorist and Professor of Project Management at Skema Business School since 2004 and at the Kingston Business School since 2013. He is known for his work of project management.

#209

Ulrich Lichtenthaler

#41696

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Ulrich Lichtenthaler is a German economist who is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the International School of Management in Cologne. He held the Chair of Management and Organization at the University of Mannheim until March 2015.

#210

William M Pardridge

#54584

Overall Influence

#211

John R. Hauser

#35075

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

John Richard Hauser is the Kirin Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is one of the founders of the field of Marketing Science and was Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Marketing Science from 1989 to 1995.

#212

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#31403

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Paul J. H. Schoemaker is an academic, author, and an expert in the fields of strategic management and decision making. He is listed among the most highly cited scholars globally as measured by academic publications in leading journals of business and economics.

#213

Alf Rehn

#48876

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Alf Rehn is a Finnish professor, author and speaker based in Denmark. He was previously the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Currently, he is a Professor of Innovation, Design, and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Rehn works as a columnist, and sits on the board of directors for several companies, including Veikkaus.

#214

Tinglong Dai

#33801

Overall Influence

Tinglong Dai is a Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, with expertise in the areas of healthcare analytics, global supply chains, the interfaces between marketing and operations, and human–AI interaction. Dai's research primarily examines the health care ecosystem using analytics approaches, with a focus on behavioral, incentive, and policy issues related to healthcare operations management.

#215

Peter Lindgren

#38995

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Peter Lindgren is a Danish organizational theorist, and Professor at Aarhus University's Department of Business and Technology, known for his research involving firms' business models, including about interdependence of partner firms' business models and about innovation..

#216

Jacqueline Liebergott

#21732

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Weis Liebergott assumed the presidency of Emerson College as its first female president in September 1993 and during her tenure spearheaded the college's move from Boston's Back Bay to the theatre district. This move resulted in unprecedented growth and success for the institution.

#217

Georg von Krogh

Georg von Krogh

#27268

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Georg von Krogh is a Norwegian organizational theorist and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation. He also serves on Strategy Commission at ETH Zurich.

#218

Syed Saad Andaleeb

Syed Saad Andaleeb

#37778

Overall Influence

Syed Saad Andaleeb is a Bangladeshi-American academic who served as the 3rd Vice-chancellor of BRAC University. Education and career Andaleeb obtained his bachelor's in chemical engineering in 1976 and master's in business administration in 1977 from University of New Hampshire. He then earned his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.

#219

Mendu Rammohan Rao

#13885

Overall Influence

Prof. Mendu Rammohan Rao was the Dean Emeritus of Indian School of Business , Hyderabad. He was Provost at the Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad. Biography He has a PhD in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Bachelors in Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, a Master in Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.

#220

Thomas Donaldson

#30801

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Thomas Donaldson is The Mark O. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in the areas of business ethics, corporate compliance, corporate governance, and leadership. He is Associate Editor for the Business Ethics Quarterly

#221

John J. DeGioia

John J. DeGioia

#8216

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

John Joseph DeGioia is an American academic administrator and philosopher who has been the president of Georgetown University since 2001. He is the first lay president of the school and is currently its longest-serving president. Upon his appointment, he also became the first lay president of any Jesuit university in the United States. Having spent his entire career at Georgetown, where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees, DeGioia was the dean of student affairs and held various vice presidential positions before becoming president.

#222

Stanley J. Shapiro

#37192

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Stanley Jack Shapiro is professor emeritus of Marketing at Simon Fraser University. He has served as dean of McGill University's School of Management and dean of Business Administration for Simon Fraser University.

#223

Ziv Carmon

#27073

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Ziv Carmon is the Dean of Research, Professor of Business Administration, and holder of The Alfred H. Heineken Chaired Professorship at INSEAD. An expert in human judgment and decision-making, he is best known for his research on placebo effects of commercial actions and on the endowment effect, and his presentations and teachings about Customer Insight.

#224

Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska

#30898

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Barbara Czarniawska is an organization scholar. At present, she is a Senior Professor of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden. Her research takes a constructionist perspective on organizing, most recently exploring the management of overflows, and integration processes. She is interested in complex organizations, institutionalism, action nets, organizational change, as well as methodology, especially in fieldwork techniques and in the application of narratology to organization studies.

#225

Michael J. Mauboussin

#46564

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Michael J. Mauboussin heads consilient research at Morgan Stanley division Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Counterpoint Global, an open-end mutual fund. Previously, he was director of research at BlueMountain Capital and head of global financial strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making. He is also an adjunct professor of finance at the Columbia Business School and serves as chairman emeritus of the board of trustees at the Santa Fe Institute, a multi-disciplin...

#226

Paul Shrivastava

Paul Shrivastava

#16613

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Paul Shrivastava is Professor of Management & Organizations, at The Pennsylvania State University. He served as Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of the Sustainability Institute, until July 1, 2022. In November 2023 he was elected as Co-President of the Club of Rome. Previously he was the Executive Director of Future Earth, an international sustainability research program. Before that, he was Distinguished Professor and Director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University.

#227

William H. Starbuck

William H. Starbuck

#20976

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

William Haynes Starbuck graduated from Harvard University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology . He is an organizational scientist who has held professorships in social relations , sociology , business administration , and management .

#228

Ralph D. Stacey

#28506

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Ralph Douglas Stacey was a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management. He is best known for his writings on the theory of organisations as complex responsive processes of relating.

#229

Robert J. Dolan

#46773

Overall Influence

Robert J. Dolan is currently the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. From 2001 to 2012, he was the dean of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. His specialty is marketing.

#230

Wynne Chin

#38319

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Wynne W. Chin is C. T. Bauer Professor of Decision and information Sciences at the University of Houston . Wynne is the second most cited researcher in his college and in the top ten in his university. He received his Ph.D. In Computers and Information System and an MBA from the University of Michigan, an MS in chemical and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, and an AB in biophysics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley. Before joining the University of Houston faculty in 1997, Wynne taught at the University of Calgary and Wayne State University. In addition, he holds v...

#231

Richard Bagozzi

#37019

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Richard Bagozzi is an American marketing theorist, consumer psychologist, and the Dwight F. Benton Professor of Behavioral Science in Management at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He is one of the most cited scholars in Marketing and among the field's most prominent theorists and empirical researchers. He has been ranked among The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014 by Thomson Reuters. He is an inaugural fellow of the American Marketing Association.

#232

Hugh Willmott

#39593

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Hugh Christopher Willmott, FBA, FAcSS is a management and organization studies scholar and academic. Since 2005, he has been research professor of Organization Studies at Cardiff University, and has also been Professor of Management at Cass Business School at City, University of London since 2014.

#233

Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi

#41499

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University, having held the position since 1988. In 2007, he was inducted into the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association Hall of Fame . He has contributed to more than 100 publications, including many articless and books on internal auditing. He has been the recipient of funding from various granting agencies, including four from The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation CBOK 2010, CBOK 2006, a monograph on "Continuous Internal Auditing" in 2005, and another monograph on "CAE...

#234

Peter Fader

#50806

Overall Influence

Peter S. Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research is about the analysis of behavioral data to forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities.

#235

Laura Starks

#51256

Overall Influence

Laura T. Starks is an American academic administrator. Starks earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Austin, a master's of business administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and returned to UTAustin for a doctorate. She was the Charles E. & Sarah M. Seay Regents’ Chair in Finance at the McCombs School of Business until her 2015 appointment as interim dean of the school. After Starks vacated the deanship, she was named George Kozmetsky Centennial University Distinguished Chair.

#236

Eileen de Villa

#30288

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Eileen Patricia de Villa is an American-Canadian physician and public servant who has served as Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto since 2017, leading the Toronto Public Health unit. She is an adjunct professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. De Villa is most well known for her role in Toronto's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was formerly the medical officer of health for Peel Region.

#237

Gary Giddins

#21105

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Gary Giddins is an American jazz critic and author. He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973; his "Weather Bird" column ended in 2003. In 1986 Gary Giddins and John Lewis created the American Jazz Orchestra which presented concerts using a jazz repertory with musicians such as Tony Bennett.

#238

Michael Wright

#54137

Overall Influence

1952 - 2019 (67 years)

Michael Wright was a fellow of the British Academy elected in 2016 and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Wright was also Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, the first centre to be established devoted to the study of private equity and buyouts, which was founded in March 1986 at the Nottingham University Business School. He wrote over 40 books and more than 300 papers in academic and professional journals on management buy-outs, venture capital, habitual entrepreneurs, academic entrepreneurs, and related topics. Wright was a Fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences and The British Academy of Management.

#239

Anthony Hopwood

#44373

Overall Influence

1944 - 2010 (66 years)

Anthony George Hopwood was a British accounting academic at Oxford University. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Accounting, Organizations and Society and Dean of the Saïd Business School. Life and career Hopwood was born in 1944 in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. He grew up in nearby Burslem and attended Hanley High School. He then studied accountancy at the London School of Economics. In 1965, he moved to Chicago as a Fulbright scholar to attend the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. There he completed his MBA and PhD.

#240

Diana Nausėdienė

#48843

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Diana Nausėdienė is a Lithuanian business manager and lecturer, she is the wife of the current President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda and has served as the First Lady of Lithuania since 12 July 2019.

#241

Anthony Neuberger

#23110

Overall Influence

Anthony Neuberger is an academic in the United Kingdom, currently Professor of Finance at Cass Business School. Neuberger has previously held senior positions at other academic institutions including Warwick Business School and London Business School.

#242

Donald C. Hambrick

#46407

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Donald C. Hambrick is Evan Pugh Professor and the Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, Smeal College of Business, at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also Bronfman Professor Emeritus, Columbia Business School, Columbia University. An internationally recognized scholar in the field of top management, Don Hambrick is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books on the topics of strategy formulation, strategy implementation, executive staffing and incentives, and the composition and processes of top management teams.

#243

Mark Bolland

#35977

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Mark William Bolland is a British public relations executive. Bolland worked for the Advertising Standards Authority and the Press Complaints Commission before serving as Deputy Private Secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales, from 1997 to 2002. During his time with Charles, Bolland was credited with rehabilitating the prince's public image and enhancing the public image of the relationship between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, who would become the prince's second wife. After leaving the Prince, Bolland established a public relations and communications firm, Mark Bolland & Associates, and ...

#244

Werner De Bondt

#16029

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Werner F.M. De Bondt is one of the founders in the field of behavioral finance. He is also the founding director of Richard H. Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance at DePaul University in Chicago. Previously, he was the Frank Graner Professor of Investment Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Thomas F. Gleed Chair of Business Administration at Albers School of Business and Economics at the Seattle University.

#245

Sachin H. Jain

#21775

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Sachin H. Jain is an American physician who held leadership positions in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology . From 2015 to 2020, he served as president and chief executive officer of the CareMore Health System. In June 2020, it was announced that he would join the SCAN Group and Health Plan as its new president and CEO. He is also adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Contributor at Forbes. In 2018, he was named one of American healthcare's most 100 most influ...

#246

David Marsh

#26744

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

David Wayne Marsh is a British financial specialist, business consultant and writer on political, economic and monetary issues. Career and education Marsh was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex on 30 July 1952. He started his career at Reuters in 1973 having graduated with a BA in chemistry from Queen's College Oxford. Between 1978 and 1995, he worked for the Financial Times newspaper in France and Germany, latterly as European Editor in London.

#247

Ivan Snehota

#49518

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Ivan Snehota was an Italian organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano, known for his work in the field of business networks with Håkan Håkansson and others.

#248

Marco Iansiti

#30739

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Marco Iansiti is a professor at the Harvard Business School, whose primary research interest is technology and operations strategy and the management of innovation. He is the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, heads the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and chairs the Digital Initiative. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Keystone Strategy, a consultancy focused on strategy, data sciences and economics for technology clients.

#249

Ibrahim Warde

#36609

Overall Influence

Ibrahim A. Warde is a scholar and consultant in the fields of international finance and global political economy. He is an adjunct professor of international business at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he previously served as the director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies. Warde is a Carnegie Scholar and the author of several books, which include The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror and Islamic Finance in the Global Economy. He is also a writer for Le Monde Diplomatique. Warde currently serves the academic dire...

#250

Scott C. Beardsley

#25006

Overall Influence

Scott C. Beardsley is an American-French professor and academic administrator. He serves as the dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he is also the Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business.

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