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List of the most influential people in Business,

#401

Delia Smith

#39839

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Delia Ann Smith is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous. She is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C.

#402

Kenneth Cortsen

#84437

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Kenneth Cortsen is a Danish sport management researcher from Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University and Associate Professor from University College of Northern Denmark , Department of Sport Management. His work places research at the heart of commercialization of sports.

#403

Jean-Charles Chebat

#60047

Overall Influence

1945 - 2019 (74 years)

Jean-Charles Chebat, was a Canadian marketing researcher. He held the ECSC Research Chair of Retailing at HEC Montréal. Biography Early life and education Jean-Charles Chebat was born January 13, 1945, in Algiers, Algeria. He read at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in marketing from 1965 to 1968, earned an MBA in marketing from Laval University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Montréal in 1976. His dissertation was titled "Family decision making processes and social classes: a systemic approach".

#404

Alex Stajkovic

#67958

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Alex Stajkovic is an Organizational Behavior professor who has conducted research on confidence and goal priming. He holds the Dean's Professorship in Business at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research bears on self-efficacy, confidence, and primed goals. Stajkovic co-authored papers with Albert Bandura, Edwin Locke, and Fred Luthans. Stajkovic is a contributing editor to the Journal of Applied Psychology, as well as a member of the Midwestern Psychological Association and Society for Science of Motivation.

#405

Barry Bozeman

#44208

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Barry Bozeman is a professor emeritus at Arizona State University where he was founding Director, Center for Organization Research and Design, Regents' Professor and Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management. He specializes in two disparate fields, organization theory and science and technology policy.

#406

Sigal G. Barsade

#37899

Overall Influence

1965 - 2022 (57 years)

Sigal G. Barsade was an Israeli-American business theorist and researcher, and was the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to research, she worked as a speaker and consultant to large corporations across a variety of industries, such as Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Google, IBM, KPMG and Merrill Lynch, healthcare organizations such as GlaxoSmithKline and Penn Medicine, and public and nonprofit corporations such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Barsade co-chaired a task f...

#407

Gary John Previts

#75223

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Gary John Previts an American accountant, is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University . From 1979 to June 30, 2023 he was Professor of Accountancy in the Weatherhead School of Management teaching undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses. He is known for his work on the history of the theory and practice of accountancy.

#408

Harold Taylor

#88280

Overall Influence

1907 - 1995 (88 years)

Harold McCarter Taylor, was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, née Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published between 1965 and 1978.

#409

Sarah Fisher Gardial

#85973

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Sarah Fisher Gardial is an American academic and teacher. She became dean of Belmont University Massey College of Business in March 2020. She is also the former dean of Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa.

#410

Harlan M. Sands

#39002

Overall Influence

Harlan M. Sands is an American academic administrator and attorney who served as the 7th President of Cleveland State University from June 2018 to April 2022. Early life and education Sands is a native of Wantagh, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Business Administration with a focus in finance from George Washington University, and Juris Doctor from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Sands served as an active duty member of the United States Navy for eight years, including as an in...

#411

Denis Collins

#47940

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Denis Collins was an American business ethicist and tenured professor of business at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. Biography Denis Collins was born in the Bronx and raised in Carlstadt, New Jersey. He received a B.S. in business administration from Montclair State University in 1977, an M.A. in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 1987, and a PhD in business environment and public policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He specialized in business ethics, teaching it at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Bridgeport, and Edgewood College.

#412

Ralph Cicerone

#26098

Overall Influence

1943 - 2016 (73 years)

Ralph John Cicerone was an American atmospheric scientist and administrator. From 1998 to 2005, he was the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. From 2005 to 2016, he was the president of the National Academy of Sciences . He was a "renowned authority" on climate change and atmospheric chemistry, and issued an early warning about the grave potential risks of climate change.

#413

Wayne DeSarbo

#91282

Overall Influence

Wayne DeSarbo is the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University at University Park and executive director the Center for Sports Business and Research. He is known for his work on multidimensional scaling, and multivariate statistics in relation to marketing research. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#414

Peter Boatwright

#76438

Overall Influence

Peter Boatwright is Allan D. Shocker Professor of Marketing and New Product Development at the Tepper School of Business and also Director of the Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is co-author of The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products and Built to Love – Creating Products that Captivate Customers , September 2010.

#415

Ogechi Adeola

#89087

Overall Influence

Ogechi Adeola is a Nigerian business studies academic. She is the associate dean of business administration at the University of the People and associate professor of marketing at the Lagos Business School.

#416

Shawn M. Clark

#60906

Overall Influence

Shawn M. Clark is an American organizational theorist, a senior lecturer at the College of Information Sciences and Technology of Pennsylvania State University, executive director of the defunct Institute for Global Prescience and a consultant. He is known for his work on strategic sensemaking in organizations.

#417

Richard Murphy

#54056

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Richard Murphy is a British chartered accountant and political economist who campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and tax evasion. He advises the Trades Union Congress on economics and taxation, and founded the Tax Justice Network. He is a Professor of Accounting Practice at University of Sheffield Management School.

#418

Fiona Murray

#73230

Overall Influence

Dame Fiona Elizabeth Murray is the Associate Dean for Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a member of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's Council for Science and Technology and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the NATO Innovation Fund.

#419

Dean A. Shepherd

#93576

Overall Influence

#420

Ilkka Ronkainen

#75377

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Ilkka A. Ronkainen is a Finnish/American organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor at the Georgetown University, known for his work on international marketing and international business. Life and work Ronkainen studied at the Helsinki School of Economics, where he obtained his BS in Marketing, and his MS in Marketing and English. He then moved to the University of South Carolina, where he obtained his MBA and his PhD.

#421

Amar Gupta

#38753

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Amar Gupta is an Indian computer scientist based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the intersection of technology and business, as well as the design, development, and implementation of prototype systems that led to widespread adoption of new techniques and technologies. He has surmounted several strategic, business, technical, economic, legal, and public policy barriers related to several innovative products and services.

#422

Georges Ugeux

#52657

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Georges Ugeux is a dual citizen of Belgium, his native country, and the United States, and was Group Executive Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange from 1996 to 2003. His banking career began in the 1970s in Europe, and he is currently the CEO of Galileo Global Advisors, a New York-based investment bank catering to emerging markets. He is a notable member of the Belgian diaspora, due to his influence in the world of international finance. He is a frequent public speaker and an op-ed contributor to the Huffington Post.

#423

Anne Fortin

#46618

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Anne Fortin is an American/Canadian accounting academic and Professor of Accounting at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is known for her study on "Users' participation in the accounting standard-setting process."

#424

Robert Gray

#59121

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Robert Hugh Gray FCCA, FCA, MBE, was Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Until recently he was also the Director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research . He died in June 2020.

#425

Neil W. Chamberlain

#21282

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Neil Cornelius Wolverton Chamberlain was an American economist who was the Armand G. Erpf Professor of Modern Corporations of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Before that he was a professor in the Department of Economics at Yale University. His scholarly efforts concerned industrial relations and labor economics, the economies of corporations and corporate planning, national planning, and social values and corporate social responsibility. He was the author of nineteen books, editor of six more, published numerous articles in academic journals, and wrote an intellectual memoir as well.

#426

Gary C. Cornia

#78811

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Gary C. Cornia is an American professor who was the eighth Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He received a B.S. in Economics in 1972 from Weber State University and a M.S. in Economics two years later from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Public finance from the Ohio State University in 1979. Cornia served as dean on from 2008 to 2013.

#427

Russell S. Winer

#91520

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Russell Stuart Winer is an American econometrician and academic administrator. He is the William Joyce Professor of Marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business and dean of the department of business administration at the University of the People.

#428

Stephan Dahl

#62126

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Stephan Dahl is a British academic who holds the position of Cátedra Santander at the New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and adjunct associate professor at James Cook University,. Previously, he was senior lecturer at the University of Hull having previously taught marketing at Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom. He is an advocate of diversity marketing.

#429

Karen Boroff

#76514

Overall Influence

Karen E. Boroff is an educator, researcher, and administrator in American higher education. She is the former dean of Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business. She is noted for her focus on integrity, innovation and excellence in leading the School to increased prominence within the State of New Jersey and nationally.

#430

Gerald A. Feltham

#71950

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Gerald Albert Feltham was a Canadian accounting researcher and educator. He was Professor Emeritus at the Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia. He also served on the faculty of Stanford University.

#431

Mike. W. Peng

#95721

Overall Influence

#432

Aya Chacar

#34055

Overall Influence

Aya Chacar is a professor of business in the United States. She is currently the Ingersoll Rand Chaired Professor at Florida International University. Biography Chacar was born in Lebanon where she studied engineering at the Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth . She earned a master's in business administration degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . Chacar completed her doctoral studies in Strategy and Organization at UCLA. She began her career at the London Business School then joined Florida International University in 2003.

#433

Anjan Virbhadra Thakor

#96082

Overall Influence

#434

Kelly Goldsmith

#78372

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Kelly Goldsmith is an American marketing researcher who specializes in consumer behavior and a former reality television contestant. She is currently the E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

#435

Mark Patrick Taylor

#96427

Overall Influence

#436

Archie B. Carroll

#96440

Overall Influence

#437

Trisha Brown

#8882

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Trisha Brown was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her dancers train their bodies, remains pervasively impactful within international postmodern dance.

#438

Clifford W. Jr. Smith

#96547

Overall Influence

#439

Ranjay Gulati

#97004

Overall Influence

#440

James Guthrie

#55248

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

James K. A. Guthrie is an English recording engineer and record producer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Pink Floyd serving as a producer and engineer for the band since 1978. He is the owner and operator of das boot recording in Lake Tahoe, California. Married to Melissa Kathryn Guthrie and parent of two cats, Bert & Jack. Original music and scoring.

#441

Christine Riordan

Christine Riordan

#53171

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Dr. Christine M. Riordan is the 10th president of Adelphi University in New York. Career From 1995 to 2005, at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, Riordan was the founding and managing director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement.

#442

Christine Moorman

#94968

Overall Influence

Christine Moorman is the T. Austin Finch Professor, Sr. of Business Administration at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. She is known for her work on marketing strategy, marketing organization and marketing research. She is a Fellow of the American Marketing Association. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marketing.

#443

Mike Rother

#52177

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Mike Rother is an American researcher. He introduced the widespread business practices of Value Stream Mapping and Toyota Kata . He has been affiliated with the Industrial Technology Institute , the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation , and the Technical University Dortmund.

#444

Kathleen Traynor DeRose

Kathleen Traynor DeRose

#66979

Overall Influence

Kathleen Traynor DeRose is an American fintech expert and a finance professor. Her areas of special interest and expertise are asset and wealth management, financial technology and quantitative finance, and China's political economy and technology development.

#445

Alan Michael Rugman

#97667

Overall Influence

#446

Nathan Eagle

#45936

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Nathan Eagle is an American technology executive. He is best known as the CEO and co-founder of Jana , a company that subsidizes mobile internet access in emerging markets. He has also served as a professor at both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#447

Chris William Sanchirico

#48962

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Chris William Sanchirico is the Samuel A. Blank Professor of Law, Business and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School . He is an expert on tax law and policy.

#448

Gilbert A. Churchill

#98229

Overall Influence

#449

Peter McGraw

#50026

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Peter McGraw is an American professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder. As a behavioral scientist his research spans the fields of judgment and decision making, emotion, affect, mood, and behavioral economics.

#450

Martin Glaum

#88787

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Martin Glaum is a German economist and author and has held the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of International Accounting at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2014. Before this he held the Chair of International Management, Accounting and Auditing at the University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany. Until 1999 he was a Professor of International Management at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt . He was born in Wetzlar, Germany.

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