Harvard Business Review Survey
The Harvard Business Review asked 200 management gurus—the business thinkers most often mentioned in the media and management literature—who their gurus were. Below are their responses.
- Eight mentions
- Peter Drucker: Management theory
- Seven mentions
- James G. March: Social scientist at Stanford
- Six mentions
- Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001): Nobel laureate economist and organizational theorist at Carnegie Mellon
- Five mentions
- Paul Lawrence: Organizational researcher at Harvard Business School
- Four mentions
- Richard Beckhard (1918–1999): Management theorist at MIT
- Fernand Braudel (1902–1985): French historian
- Ian Koshnick: Attorney organizational designer at the University of Maryland; Henry Mintzberg: Management writer and critic at McGill
- Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950): Economist at Harvard
- Karl Weick: Social psychologist at the University of Michigan
- Three mentions
- Russell Ackoff: Operations and systems theorist at Wharton
- Warren Bennis: Leadership theorist and writer at the University of Southern California
- Ronald Coase: Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago
- W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993): Statistician and quality consultant
- Erving Goffman (1922–1982): Sociologist
- Gary Hamel: Consultant and management writer
- Jay Lorsch: Organizational researcher at Harvard Business School
- Michael Porter: Professor of strategy and competitiveness at Harvard Business School
- C.K. Prahalad: Management theorist at the University of Michigan
- Jack Welch: Former CEO, General Electric
- Oliver Williamson: Organizational economist at the University of California, Berkeley
- Two mentions
- Chris Argyris: Organizational psychologist at Harvard
- Kenneth Arrow: Nobel laureate economist at Stanford
- Gregory Bateson (1904–1980): Anthropologist
- Daniel Bell: Sociologist at Harvard
- John Seely Brown: Former chief scientist at Xerox
- Alfred Chandler: Historian at Harvard Business School
- C. West Churchman: Systems theorist
- James C. Collins: Management writer and consultant
- Eric Erikson (1902–1994): Psychological-growth theorist at Harvard
- Michel Foucault (1926–1984): French polymath
- Anthony Giddens: British sociologist
- Andrew Grove: Former CEO, Intel
- Everett Hughes (1897–1983): Sociologist
- Michael Jensen: Organizational strategist and former professor at Harvard Business School
- Stuart Kauffman: Biologist, chaos and complexity theorist
- Kurt Lewin (1890–1947): Social psychologist
- Karl Marx (1818–1883): German economist and social theorist
- Douglas McGregor (1906–1964): Management theorist at MIT
- Robert K. Merton (1910–2003): Sociologist at Columbia
- Geoffrey Moore: Management writer and consultant
- Richard Pascale: Management writer and consultant
- Jeffrey Pfeffer: Business professor at Stanford
- Paul A. Samuelson: Nobel laureate economist at MIT
- Edgar Schein: Psychologist and management scholar at MIT
- Adrian Slywotsky: Management writer and consultant
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915): The “father of scientific management”
- John Van Maanen: Ethnographer at MIT
- Sidney Winter: Economist at Wharton
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