Top 5 Gurus

Management Group
Research Workshop 2

1. Richard DAveni
Bakala Professor of strategy at the Tuck School of
Business at Dartmouth College.
Winner of A.T. Kearney award
Among top 50 management thinkers lists published
by London Times, Forbes.com, CNN.com, The Times
of India and the Harvard Business Review
Highly influential articles in the Harvard Business
Review and MIT/Sloan Management Review
Recently published books Strategic Supremacy
(2007) and Beating the Commodity Trap (2010)
have been highly influential for corporate and
government sectors

2. Ron Adner
Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tuck
School of Business at Dartmouth College
Coined many new terms/frameworks/models e.g.,
Innovation Ecosystems
His work is a convergence of academic and practical
approaches
The Wide-Lens: A new strategy for innovation, best
business book 2012 by Strategy+Business
His pioneering HBR article Match Your Innovation
Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem, is assigned
reading in over fifty global MBA programs.
His research has been published in Management
Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management
Journal, Academy of Management Review, etc.

3. Laurence Capron
Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
Merger & Alliances, Alliances and Business
Portfolio Growth
Many best selling books and ground breaking
articles
Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth
Dilemma (2012) examines how companies should
select and balance their different modes of
growth: organic growth (build), licensing and
alliances (borrow) and M&As (buy)
2013 Best International Book Awards, granted by
USA Book News, and it has been translated in
three different languages.
INSEAD MBA Best Teacher Award, Academy of

4. Dr. John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Professor for over 30
years
Internationally renowned author on Leadership
and Change
Within his 18 books included are the international
best seller Leading Change (1996) and Our
Iceberg is Melting (2006)
Leading Change- one of the top 25 most
influential business management books of all
time by Time Magazine (2011)
Has been the # 1 leadership guru for many years

5. Tom Peters(freelance author &

consultant)

Red Bull of management thinkers

Navy personnel turned management
professional
Personal and business empowerment and
problem solving methodologies
Best selling book In Search of Excellence
(1982)- one of the most widely read
business books
Last influential book The Little Big Things:
163 Ways to Pursue Excellence (2010)