List of Business Theorists - Harvard Business Review Survey

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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