Strategy Thinker 2013
Rita Gunther McGrath: An associate professor of management at Columbia Business School, She is the author of the latest bestseller, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (HBR Press, 2013).
Strategy Award Nominations
Erik Brynjolfsson: The Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. Brynjolfsson’s work focuses on how businesses can effectively use information technology. Author (with Andrew McAfee) of Race Against The Machine (Digital Frontier Press, 2012).
Laurence Capron: The co-author of Build, Borrow or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma (HBR Press, 2012).
Laurence Capron is a professor of strategy at INSEAD.
Richard D’Aveni: The Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, D’Aveni is the author of Hypercompetition, (Free Press, 1994) and Beating the Commodity Trap (HBR Press, 2009). Most recently, Strategic Capitalism (McGraw-Hill, 2012).
Roger Martin: The former dean of Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Martin has written compellingly about the importance of design thinking. Most recently, he is the co-author (with AG Lafley, chairman of Procter & Gamble) of Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works (HBR Press, 2013), a practical approach to winning strategy. He now holds Premier’s Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness at Rotman.
Rita Gunther McGrath: An associate professor of management at Columbia Business School, She is the author of the latest bestseller, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (HBR Press, 2013).
Cynthia Montgomery: The Timken Professor of Business Administration and former chair of the strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Montgomery’s latest book is The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs (HarperBusiness, 2012).
Richard Rumelt: The Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. ” He has authored or co-authored Strategy, Structure, and Economic Performance (Harvard Business, 1974), Fundamental Issues in Strategy (Harvard Business Press, 1994), and Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (Crown, 2011).
Chris Zook: A partner at Bain & Co. where he leads its Global Strategy Practice, Zook’s books include the Profit from the Core trilogy and his most recent book, Repeatability (HBR Press, 2012).
Innovation Thinker 2013
Navi Radjou: A fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School, where he is the former director of the Centre for India & Global Business, Radjou is co-author (with Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja) of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth (Jossey Bass, 2012); and (with Prasad Kaipa) From Smart to Wise (Jossey Bass, 2013).
Innovation Award Nominations
Ron Adner: Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Adner is the author of The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation (Portfolio, 2012), He is also author of the Harvard Business Review article, “Match Your Innovation Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem”.
Henry Chesbrough: Director of the Center for Open Innovation at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, His books include Open Innovation (Harvard Business Press, 2003); Open Business Models, Open Services Innovation
Vijay Govindarajan: The Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business. Govindarajan has published nine books including Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators (Harvard Business Press, 2005) and The Other Side of Innovation (Harvard Business Press, 2010).
Hal Gregersen: A Professor of Leadership at INSEAD, Gregersen is coauthor (with Clay Christensen and Jeffrey Dyer) of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (HBR Press, 2011). His other co-authored books, including: It Starts With One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations (Wharton, 2008); and Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders (Routledge, 1999).
Matt Kingdon: The co-founder of the innovation international consulting firm ?What If!, Kingdon is author of The Science of Serendipity: How to Unlock the Promise of Innovation in Large Organizations (Wiley, 2012).
Kai-Fu Lee: Now based in Beijing, Lee was educated in the United States and later carried out research at Carnegie Mellon. He was the founding president of Google China. He runs a venture capital fund called Innovation Works, backing Chinese entrepreneurs. His blog has 40 million followers. He is the author of Making a World of Difference (2011).
Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur: Osterwalder and Pigneur are the authors of Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Gamechangers and Challengers (self-published, 2010). This is based on a tool called the Business Model Canvas. The book’s contents were co-created by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from 45 countries, and features a highly visual, four-colour design that explains a range of strategic ideas and tools.
Navi Radjou: A fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School, where he is the former director of the Centre for India & Global Business, Radjou is co-author (with Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja) of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth (Jossey Bass, 2012); and (with Prasad Kaipa) From Smart to Wise (Jossey Bass, 2013).
Leadership Thinker 2013
Herminia Ibarra: Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning and Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. Her work focuses on professional and leadership development, including collaborative leadership, identity, women’s careers and career transition. She is the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (HBR Press, 2003). Her current research examines CEO leadership and corporate performance, and includes co-authoring “The Best Performing CEOs in the World,” (Harvard Business Review, 2010).
Leadership Award Nominations
Liu Chuanzhi: The Chairman of Legend Holdings Limited, and the Founder and Honorary Chairman of Lenovo Group Limited. His leadership emphasizes the core management team, strategy and execution – seeking to take the best Western management theories and apply them to the reality of creating a Chinese-based global brand. Lenovo is now the second-largest computer group in the world.
Amy Edmondson: The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Her field research into teamwork has spanned a range of environments including the cardiac surgery operating room; factory floor; and executive suite. She is the author (with Ed Schein) of Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (HBR Press, 2012).
Stewart (Stew) Friedman: A practice professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Friedman has long championed leadership development and work/life integration. His books include Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998); and the best-selling, award winning Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business Press, 2008).
Linda Hill: Short-listed for the Thinkers50 Leadership Award in 2011, Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and also chairs the school’s leadership initiative. Her books include the best-selling Becoming a Manager (Harvard Business Press, 2003); Being the Boss, co-authored with Kent Lineback (HBR Press, 2011); and Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (forthcoming 2013).
Herminia Ibarra: Shortlisted for the 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award, Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning and Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. Her work focuses on professional and leadership development, including collaborative leadership, identity, women’s careers and career transition. She is the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (HBR Press, 2003). Her current research examines CEO leadership and corporate performance, and includes co-authoring “The Best Performing CEOs in the World,” (Harvard Business Review, 2010).
Andrew Kakabadse: Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business School, Kakabadse is one of world’s leading experts on top teams, boardroom effectiveness and governance. His Top Teams database covers 21 nations and his board studies span 14 countries and include many thousands of private and public sector organizations. A prolific author and co-author, his books include Leading the Board: The Six Disciplines of World Class Chairmen (Palgrave McMillan, 2007); and Leading Smart Transformation: A Roadmap for World Class Government (Palgrave McMillan, 2011).
Liz Mellon: Author of Inside the Leader’s Mind: Five Ways to Think Like a Leader (FT Prentice-Hall, 2011), Mellon launched and developed Duke Corporate Educations’ London office. Before joining Duke, she was a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School. She has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and spearheaded the launch of Duke’s executive education programs in India. She is currently working on a book about leading strategy execution.
Mike Myatt: An American CEO coach, Myatt is the CEO of N2growth and the author of Leadership Matters: The CEO Survival Manual: What it Takes to Reach the C-Suite and Stay There (Outskirts Press, 2007). He writes a regularly for Forbes.
Wang Shi: A mountaineer who has scaled Everest as well as many other of the world’s great peaks, Wang Shi is founder and chairman of Vanke, the world’s largest residential home developer. He has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard, led China’s first and largest entrepreneur organization, is involved with a variety of philanthropic organizations, and is the author of Ladder of the Soul (Citic Press, 2011).
Liz Wiseman: A former executive at Oracle, Wiseman is President of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. She is the author of Multipliers (HarperBusiness, 2010), and the subsequent book The Multiplier Effect (Corwin, 2013).
Best Book 2013
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, by AG Lafley and Roger Martin (HBR Press, 2013).
Best Book Award Nominations
How Will You Measure Your Life: Finding Fulfillment Using Lessons from Some of the World’s Greatest Businesses, by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness, 2012)
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, by Jim Collins & Morten Hansen (HarperBusiness, Oct 2011)
Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Changed the Way Big Companies Transform, by Bill Fischer, Umberto Lago, and Fang Liu (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, by Adam Grant (Viking, 2013)
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, by AG Lafley and Roger Martin (HBR Press, 2013).
The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving As Fast as Your Business, by Rita McGrath (HBR Press, 2013)
To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others, by Daniel Pink (Riverhead Books, 2012)
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf, 2013)
Global Solutions Thinker 2013
Don Tapscott: The author or co-author of 15 widely read books including Macrowikinomics (revised paperback 2012) and most recently Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success (TED, 2013), with Anthony D. Williams.
Global Solutions Award Nominations
Celia de Anca: The Professor of Global Diversity at Spain’s IE Business School, de Anca is an expert in Islamic finance. She is the author of Beyond Tribalism: Managing Identities in a Diverse World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Pankaj Ghemawat: First released in 2011, the Global Connectedness Index analyses global flows and their power to increase prosperity. A professor at Spain’s IESE Business School and the Stern School in New York, Ghemawat is the author of World 3.0 (Harvard Business Press, 2011).
Lynda Gratton: A Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, Gratton’s most recent book, The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here (Collins, 2011), explores the changing patterns of work that are already affecting people all over the world.
Anil K Gupta & Haiyan Wang: The founders of the China India Institute, a Washington DC-based research and consulting firm, Gupta and Wang are the authors of Getting China and India Right (Wiley, 2009); and Tigers in Dragon Land (forthcoming from Wiley).
Maya Hu-Chan: Born and raised in Taiwan, Hu-Chan is the President of Global Leadership Associates, based in San Diego. She is the co-author of Global Leadership: The Next Generation (FT Prentice Hall, 2003).
W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne: The authors of the worldwide bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy (Harvard Business Press, 2005), Kim and Mauborgne are professors at INSEAD where they founded the Blue Ocean Strategy Institute.
Iqbal Z. Quadir: Bangladesh-born Professor of the Practice of Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. He worked as a consultant for the World Bank before returning to Bangledesh to found Grameenphone and Gonofone. In September 2007, Legatum, a Dubai-based private investment firm, committed $50 million to the creation of a new Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT led by Quadir.
Don Tapscott: The author or co-author of 15 widely read books including Macrowikinomics (revised paperback 2012) and most recently Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success (TED, 2013), with Anthony D. Williams.
CK PRAHALAD Breakthrough Idea Award
Winner
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation—The Circular Economy: The circular economy challenges corporations to think in circular rather than linear terms about their supply chains and the lives of their products The starting point for this lies in designing out waste so that products are designed and optimized for a cycle of disassembly and reuse. Working with major corporations including B&Q, BT, Cisco, National Grid and Renault, as well as the consulting firm, McKinsey, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is bringing the concept to a wider audience.
CK PRAHALAD Breakthrough Idea Award Shortlist
Steve Blank—Lean startup: Steve Blank of the Haas School of Business is credited with launching the Lean startup Movement and revolutionizing the practice and teaching of entrepreneurship and innovation. Blank’s work, initially focused on startups, is now being applied to the corporate world. Blank is the co-author of The Startup Owner’s Manual (K&S Ranch, 2012) and The Four Steps to Epiphany (K&S Ranch, 2003).
Mark Campanale & Pradeep Jethi—The Social Stock Exchange: Launched in April 2013, the Social Stock Exchange is an online portal that will publish details of social ventures that want investment. The initiative, supported by the London Stock Exchange, was launched with 12 listed member companies from industries such as recycling, clean technology and social and affordable housing. The Social Stock Exchange will not act as a trading platform where investments can be bought and sold, but as a shop window through which social investors can access information on publicly listed businesses.
Bhagwan Chowdhry—Financial Access at Birth: Chowdhry is a professor of finance at UCLA’s Anderson School. A meal with Vijay Mahajan, India’s father of microfinance, led to Chowdhry and his host coming up with Financial Access @ Birth (FAB). FAB is a new venture designed by Chowdhry to increase access to financial savings. The idea is that when a child is born, he or she is assigned an electronic ID, which also serves as a birth certificate. At the time of birth, $100 dollars is also deposited into an online bank account to jump start savings. The FAB idea is to repeat this process for every child born across the globe.
Subir Chowdhury—The Economics of Quality: Subir Chowdhury’s work establishes a clear link between quality and economics. He is currently working to demonstrate how this link determines the very economic future of countries and their citizens. He argues that the cumulative effect of poor quality (from waste, atrophy, corruption) will retard the advancement of civilizations.
Richard D’Aveni—Strategic Capitalism: With the rise of the new economic powerhouses, especially China, D’Aveni argues we are seeing a new form of capitalism where states compete against other states—or more accurately their forms of capitalism compete with each other for economic success. The struggle between China and the US amounts to the opening moves of a Capitalist Cold War.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation—The Circular Economy: The circular economy challenges corporations to think in circular rather than linear terms about their supply chains and the lives of their products The starting point for this lies in designing out waste so that products are designed and optimized for a cycle of disassembly and reuse. Working with major corporations including B&Q, BT, Cisco, National Grid and Renault, as well as the consulting firm, McKinsey, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is bringing the concept to a wider audience.
Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja—Jugaad Innovation: Western corporations can no longer just rely on the old formula that sustained innovation and growth for decades: a mix of top-down strategies, expensive R&D projects and rigid, highly structured innovation processes. With the idea of jugaad innovation, Navi Radjou and his co-authors argues that the West must look to places like India, China, and Africa for a new, bottom-up approach to frugal and flexible innovation.
Sheryl Sandberg—Lean In: Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (Knopf, 2013) by Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg has re-ignited the debate about how best women can succeed in the workplace. Central to Sandberg’s argument is the idea of leaning in, creating a virtuous circle of proving your worth and then shaping your future. It has spawned a movement.
Future Thinker 2013
Nilofer Merchant: teaches innovation at Stanford and Santa Clara Universities. She is the author two best-selling books: The New How (O’Reilly, 2010); and 11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra (HBR Press, 2012).
Future Thinker Award Shortlist
Dorie Clark: Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Clark is a former presidential campaign spokeswoman and a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. She is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).
Ioannis Ioannou: Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, Ioannou’s research focuses on sustainability and corporate social responsibility, especially how environmental, social and corporate governance strategies can be implemented effectively.
. She is the president and co-founder of the investment firm Rose Park Advisors, a regular contributor for the Harvard Business Review blogs, and is the author of the book Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (Bibliomotion, 2012).
Nilofer Merchant: teaches innovation at Stanford and Santa Clara Universities. She is the author two best-selling books: The New How (O’Reilly, 2010); and 11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra (HBR Press, 2012).
Ethan Molick: Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Assistant Professor of Management, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. . Mollick is the co-author of Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming The Future of Business, (FT Press, 2008).
Lee Newman: Professor at IE Business School, in Madrid, Lee Newman’s work has been mainly in the area of positive psychology and behavioural science.
Gianpiero Petriglieri: Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, Petriglieri is the academic director of the school’s initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence, and chairs the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on new models of leadership. He is a frequent Harvard Business Review blogger.
Christian Stadler: An Associate Professor in Strategic Management at Warwick Business School, Stadler is an expert on long-term success. Stadler is the author of Enduring Success. What we can learn from the history of outstanding corporations (Stanford University Press, 2011).
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