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List of the most influential people in Business,

#451

Antonio Strati

#47993

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Antonio Strati is an Italian organizational theorist, artist and Professor at the University of Trento, particularly known for his work on "Organization and aesthetics". Biography Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, Strati attended secondary education in Florence. He received his BA in Sociology in 1974 from the University of Trento. In 1982 he received his PhD in Organization Studies in 1982 from the Tavistock Institute in London, where he specialized in Action Research.

#452

Molly Rapert

#88184

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Molly Rapert Inhofe is an associate professor of marketing at the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business. She is also the Director for the Center for Teaching Effectiveness. She is the daughter of Jim Inhofe, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma.

#453

Christine Cooper

Christine Cooper

#86203

Overall Influence

Christine Cooper is a British accounting academic. She holds a Chair in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh Business School and is co-editor-in-chief of Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Her research examines the economic, political and social impact of accounting.

#454

Rebecca Chopp

#11369

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Rebecca S. Chopp is an academic administrator and professor. She was the chancellor of the University of Denver, and the first female chancellor in the institution's history. Prior to that, Chopp was a president of Swarthmore College and Colgate University.

#455

Richard H. Brodhead

Richard H. Brodhead

#5887

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Richard Halleck Brodhead is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina from 2004 to 2017. Early life and education Brodhead was born April 17, 1947, in Dayton, Ohio. His family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut when he was six years old, where he attended public schools. He attended Phillips Academy, where his high school classmates included Dick Wolf and George W. Bush. He attended Yale University, where, during his senior year, he was tapped for membership in the secret society Manuscript and as a member of the Elizabethan Club.

#456

Leslie Hannah

#72899

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Leslie Hannah, is a British economic historian and academic, specialising in business history. During his academic career, he was most closely associated with the London School of Economics. His work focuses on the development of corporations, pensions and banking.

#457

Karen A. Smith

#63524

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Karen Alison Smith is a New Zealand management academic. She is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career Smith did a 1999 PhD thesis titled 'The management of volunteers at heritage attractions : literary heritage properties in the UK' at Nottingham Trent University, working at the University of Greenwich before moving to Victoria University of Wellington in 2003 and rising to full professor in 2017.

#458

Nikos Bozionelos

#75027

Overall Influence

Nikos Bozionelos is a Greek-British academic in the area of Business Psychology. His early career contributions included a report on physical features and promotion rates of managers. Later contributions included establishment of the notion of prevalence rates for computer anxiety and demonstration of the digital divide.

#459

Sheldon Patinkin

#29561

Overall Influence

1935 - 2014 (79 years)

Sheldon Arthur Patinkin was a chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago, artistic director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, Artistic Consultant of The Second City and of Steppenwolf Theatre and co-director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Summer Ensemble Workshops.

#460

J. Richard Harvey

#81146

Overall Influence

J. Richard Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Practice at Villanova University School of Law and Graduate Tax Program. He joined the faculty in 2010, and previously served as professor at Bucknell University and The College of New Jersey. He is a frequent speaker quoted in the press, and has delivered speeches to the Canadian Tax Foundation, Multistate Tax Commission, American Bar Association, Tax Executive Institute, Wall Street Tax Association, and the Institute for International Bankers. He has also testified before the United States Congress on the international tax planning done by Apple, Inc.

#461

Enno Bahrs

#61756

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Enno Bahrs is an agricultural scientist and economist, and tax expert, at the University of Hohenheim and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of the German Federal Republic.

#462

Gerald Midgley

#43332

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Gerald Robert Midgley is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is known for his work on "Systemic Intervention;" which he defined as "purposeful action by an agent to create change in relation to reflection upon boundaries."

#463

Colin Eden

#82639

Overall Influence

Colin Eden was a professor in management science and operations research at Strathclyde University. Academic career Eden worked as an operational researcher in engineering upon bagging a doctorate. He then proceeded to academia, first working at the University of Bath Management School as a senior lecturer, then, as a reader.

#464

William B. Gartner

#101189

Overall Influence

#465

Paul Leonardi

#75777

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Paul M. Leonardi was the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was also the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director of the Master of Technology Management Program. Leonardi moved to UCSB to found the Technology Management Program and start its Master of Technology Management and Ph.D. programs. Before joining UCSB, Leonardi was a faculty member in the School of Communication, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

#466

Harrie Vredenburg

Harrie Vredenburg

#90077

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Harrie Vredenburg is a leading scholar in the areas of competitive strategy, innovation, sustainable development and corporate governance in global energy and natural resource industries and is Professor of Strategy and Suncor Chair in Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business. He also holds appointments as a Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and as an International Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in the UK. In addition, he has taught annually at ESSAM, the European ...

#467

Diether Haenicke

#50956

Overall Influence

1935 - 2009 (74 years)

Diether H. Haenicke was president of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1985 to 1998, and again from 2006 to 2007. A large building on campus, Haenicke Hall, is named for him. In 1962, Haenicke received his doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Munich.

#468

Diana Natalicio

#23405

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Diana Natalicio was an American academic administrator who served as 10th president of the University of Texas at El Paso from 1988 to 2019. After growing up in St. Louis, Natalicio studied Spanish as an undergraduate, completed a master's degree in Portuguese and earned a doctorate in linguistics. She became an assistant professor at UTEP in 1971, and was named the first female president of the university on February 11, 1988.

#469

Samer Takriti

#79895

Overall Influence

Samer Takriti is a Syrian management scientist. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Michigan. An expert in energy markets, he worked for Enron in 1999-2000. He has also been a senior manager in the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research. The initiatives of this department were reported on in a BusinessWeek cover story. The story has received substantial media coverage; another paper Takriti contributed to on the impact of outsourcing has also received some media attention.

#470

Amitava Chattopadhyay

Amitava Chattopadhyay

#59458

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Amitava Chattopadhyay is The GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor in Corporate Innovation — Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, Fellow of the Institute on Asian Consumer Insights, and Senior Fellow at the Ernst & Young Institute for Emerging Market Studies.

#471

Jason Saul

#70407

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jason Saul is an American author, entrepreneur, and educator, best known as an expert on measuring social impact and benchmarking. He is the founder and CEO of Mission Measurement, a consulting firm that advises corporations, governments, and nonprofit agencies on their social impact. Saul was also the founder of the Center For What Works, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that focused on benchmarking and performance measurement. In 2013 he founded the Center for Innovation and Public Value, a nonprofit organization that assists governments with getting value of its expenditures.

#472

Yehuda Kahane

#87260

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Yehuda Kahane is an Israeli businessman and academic, and the 2011 recipient of the John S. Bickley Founder's Award for his contribution to the theory, practice, and education of insurance and risk management. Kahane is active in both the academic and business areas. In 2015, he won an Annual Better World Award for sustainability.

#473

Roger James Calantone

#102112

Overall Influence

#474

Victor Ricciardi

#73613

Overall Influence

Victor Ricciardi is an American professor of business and author. He was an assistant professor of financial management at Goucher College. He is currently teaching at Ursinus College as a visiting Assistant Professor of Finance.

#475

Lisa Ellram

#101414

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Lisa Maria Ellram is the James Evans Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain at the Farmer School of Business. Early life and education Ellram grew up in Minnesota and earned her BSB degree in accounting and MBA from the University of Minnesota. She then traveled to Ohio to earn her Master's degree and PhD from Ohio State University. While earning her doctorate, she worked for the Pillsbury Company as an accountant.

#476

Stephen D. Nadauld

#86583

Overall Influence

1942 - 1991 (49 years)

Stephen Douglas Nadauld is an American academic, the former president of Dixie State University and Weber State University . Nadauld was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1991 to 1996.

#477

Amanda Broderick

Amanda Broderick

#44282

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Amanda Jayne Broderick is a British marketer, academic and academic administrator who has been the vice-chancellor and president of the University of East London since September 2018. She is also professor of international business.

#478

Melissa Schilling

Melissa Schilling

#74427

Overall Influence

Melissa A. Schilling is an American innovation scholar and professor. She holds the John Herzog Family chair in management and organizations at NYU Stern, and she is also the Innovation Director for Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. She is world known as an expert in innovation, is the author of the leading innovation strategy text, Strategic Management of Technological Innovation , and is a coauthor of Strategic Management: Theory and Cases . She is also the author of Quirky: The remarkable story of the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators who changed the world.

#479

Jonathan Berk

#91894

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Jonathan B. Berk is the A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has held this position since 2008. Prior to his arrival at Stanford University, he was the Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs before beginning his academic career.

#480

Luk Van Wassenhove

#100998

Overall Influence

Luk van Wassenhove is a management thinker and educator. He is a professor of technology operations management at INSEAD, where he holds the Henry Ford Chaired Professorship in Manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Humanitarian Research Group and a Fellow of CEDEP, the European Center for Executive Education, based in France.

#481

Randall Steve Schuler

#104424

Overall Influence

#482

Mihail Zervos

#16714

Overall Influence

Mihail Zervos is a Greek financial mathematician. He is Professor of Financial Mathematics at the London School of Economics. Curriculum Zervos received his MSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College London in 1995. After completing his PhD, he was a lecturer at the Department of Statistics, University of Newcastle, where he stayed until 2000. He then joined King's College London, initially as a lecturer and then as a reader in the Department of Mathematics. In 2006 he was appointed to the Chair in Financial Mathematics at the London School of Economics where he was tasked with founding a new R...

#483

Sumantra Sumantra Ghoshal

#105546

Overall Influence

#484

Jill Hooks

#56948

Overall Influence

Jillian Jeanette Hooks is a New Zealand accountancy academic. She was a professor at the Massey University and published a number of books and papers on accounting and financial reporting. Academic career Hooks completed a 2000 PhD at the University of Waikato titled "Accountability in the retail and distribution sectors of the New Zealand electricity industry" and the Electricity sector in New Zealand remains a strong research topic. She works at Massey University, where she is a full professor. Other research interests include reporting and talent flows. Hooks is a Chartered accountant of t...

#485

Henri Barki

#65436

Overall Influence

Henri Barki is a Turkish-Canadian social scientist, and was a Canada Research Chair at HEC Montréal, Université de Montréal until he retired in 2017. He was given the title of emeritus. == Education == 1980–1984 PhD, School of Business Administration The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada 1972–1974 MA, School of Business Administration Bogaziçi University Istanbul, Türkiye 1968–1972 BSc, School of Electrical Engineering Bogaziçi University

#486

Martin Wachs

#67251

Overall Influence

1941 - 2021 (80 years)

Martin Wachs was an American professor emeritus of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles and of City and Regional Planning and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career in university teaching in 1968 and retired from teaching in 2006, to work at the Rand Corporation until 2010.

#487

Janet L. Holmgren

#39958

Overall Influence

Janet L. Holmgren is the president of Patten University. Previously, she was the president of Mills College in Oakland, California from 1991 to 2011. She was previously vice provost at Princeton University from 1988 to 1991. Before that, she was an administrator and professor at the University of Maryland. She holds a B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Oakland University , 1968, a M.A. in Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Linguistics, Princeton University, 1974.

#488

John H. Garvey

#14306

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

John Hugh Garvey was the 15th president of the Catholic University of America. Trained as a lawyer, Garvey assumed this position in 2010. Education John H. Garvey attended the University of Notre Dame where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. He was candidate for a Master of Theological Studies degree at Harvard Divinity School , and then entered the Harvard Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1974.

#489

Stephen Louis Vargo

#106245

Overall Influence

#490

Alex Garland

#45938

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Alexander Medawar Garland is an English novelist and filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach . He subsequently received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later and Sunshine , as well as Never Let Me Go and Dredd . In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and served as a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry .

#491

Nalin Kulatilaka

#66646

Overall Influence

Professor Nalin Kulatilaka is a Sri Lankan born American academic and researcher. Currently, Nalin Kulatilaka is The Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management as well as Professor of Finance in the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, Director of the Impact Measurement and Allocation Program, Director of the Susilo Institute of Ethics in a Global Economy, and the Associate Director at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability.

#492

Janet Dudley-Eshbach

Janet Dudley-Eshbach

#51150

Overall Influence

Janet Dudley-Eshbach, Ph.D. became president of Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland in June 2000. She is the eighth president and the first woman to hold that office in the seventy-five year history of the university. In 2005, she was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2005 by the Maryland Daily Record. She retired in June 2018.

#493

Neil R. Grabois

#32817

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Neil R. Grabois is a mathematician and a former university administrator. He held positions as the dean, provost, and chair of the department of mathematical sciences of Williams College; as the thirteenth President of Colgate University, from 1988 to 1999; as Vice President at the Carnegie Corporation in New York; and as the dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, where he served from 2010 until his departure in 2013.

#494

Sara Dolnicar

#101355

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Sara Dolnicar is a social scientist trained in Austria who researches market segmentation, sustainable tourism, and Airbnb. Since 2013, she has been a research professor of Tourism at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has been recognised by the Republic of Slovenia for her research achievements.

#495

William J. Parton

#106929

Overall Influence

#496

Mark Dodgson

#82827

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Mark Jonathan Dodgson is an Australian academic and author. His research on the innovation process has influenced innovation management and policy worldwide. Biography Born in Norwich, UK, he grew up in Wales and Uganda, where his father was pilot to Presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin. He is the brother of author, Philip Pullman. After a number of years working as a lorry driver and drayman in London, Dodgson completed his PhD in two years at Imperial College London and worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at University of Sussex for eight years. During this period he developed expertise in technology and innovation management and policy in Europe.

#497

G. Tomas M. Hult

#107152

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

#498

Victoria Ivashina

#92377

Overall Influence

Victoria Ivashina is a Russian-American economist and Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, where she has taught since 2006. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research .

#499

Jean-Luc Cerdin

#91976

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Jean-Luc Cerdin is a French organizational theorist, Professor at the French business school ESSEC, known for his contributions on human resources management. He has led researches on international career and mobility. He is currently teaching in and has been twice a visiting teacher in American universities

#500

Giuseppe Soda

#92207

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Giuseppe Soda is Full Professor of Organization Theory & Social Network Analysis at Università Bocconi and at SDA Bocconi School of Management where he served as Dean from 2016 to 2022. Career Soda is Professor of Organization Theory and Design, and Network Analysis at Bocconi University, Milan. The Board of Trustees of Bocconi University appointed Soda as Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management in 2016, role fulfilled until the year 2022. Prior to the appointment as Dean, Soda was elected in 2013 as the Director of the Management & Technology Department at Bocconi University, and appointed ...

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