Management Thought Leaders
Gary Hamel
Areas of Expertise
 Management innovation
 Web-based management
models
 Strategic renewal
 Organisational adaptability
 Employee engagement
Profile
Since 1983, Gary Hamel has
been on the faculty of the
London Business School
where he is currently Visiting
Professor of Strategic and
International Management.
Gary Hamel is a Fellow of the
World Economic Forum and
the Strategic Management
Society. He lives in Northern
California.
We’ve reached the end of
incrementalism. Only those
companies that are
capable of creating
industry revolution will
prosper in the new
economy.
— Gary Hamel
Accomplishment
 “The #1 most influential business thinker in the world” (Wall Street Journal)
 Advisory to government leaders on matters of innovation policy,
entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness
Bestselling books available at SIM Library:
What matters now (2012)
The future of management (2007)
Leading the revolution (2002
Alliance advantage (1998)
Strategic flexibility (1998)
Competing for the future (1994)
Featured works available at SIM Library Online Databases:
Business Source Complete (Harvard Business Review) – journal
articles
Factiva – newspaper articles
ABI-INFORM Complete – journal article
Rosabeth M. Kanter
I’ve found that small wins,
small projects, small
differences often make
huge differences
— Rosabeth M. Kanter
Areas of Expertise
 General Management
 Innovation
 Leadership
 Organisational Change &
Transformation
 Strategic Change
 Employee engagement
Accomplishment
 She advises CEOs of large and small companies, has served on numerous
business and non-profit boards.
 “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year” (World Teleport Association)
Profile
She is Chair and Director of the
Advanced Leadership Initiative of
Harvard University, a
collaboration across the
professional schools to help
Bestselling books available at SIM Library:
Supercorp (2009)
America the principled (2007)
Confidence (2004)
Evolve! (2001)
Featured works available at SIM Library Online Databases:
ABI-INFORM Complete – journal articles
Business Source Complete (Harvard Business Review) – journal
articles
Factiva – newspaper article
successful leaders at the top of
their professions apply their skills
to addressing challenging
national and global problems in
their next stages of life. She holds
the Ernest L. Arbuckle
Professorship at Harvard Business
School where she specializes in
strategy, innovation and
leadership for change.
Don Peppers
Areas of Expertise
 Marketing
 Customer Service
 Leadership
 Return on Customer
 Customer-Drive
Customer will create
most value for you at
point he thinks you’re
creating most value for
him.
— Don Peppers
Innovation
 Customer Relationship
Management (CRM)
Profile
Recognized for more than
20 years as one of the
Accomplishment
 2012 Silver Apple Honoree, recognizing individuals and organizations for their
outstanding contributions to direct and interactive marketing, during a career
spanning at least 25 years.
world's leading authorities
on customer-focused
business strategies, Don
Peppers is an acclaimed
author and a founding
partner of Peppers & Rogers
Group, the world's premier
customer-centric
management consulting
firm.
Bestselling books available at SIM Library:
Extreme trust (2012)
Rules to break and laws to follow (2008)
Return on customer (2005)
Managing customer relationships (2004)
One to one B2B (2001)
The one to one manager (1999)
The one to one fieldbook (1999)
Featured works available at SIM Library Online Databases:
Business Source Complete (Harvard Business Review) – journal articles
ABI-INFORM Complete – journal articles
Factiva – newspaper articles
Clayton Christensen
Areas of Expertise
Innovation almost always is
not successful the first time
out. You try something and it
doesn't work … Ultimately
you become commercially
successful.
– Clayton Christensen
 Innovation
 Growth
 Strategy
 Leadership
 Innovation
Profile
Currently, he is the Kim B.
Accomplishment
 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, Tribeca Film Festival.
 Won 2011 Thinkers50 Innovation Award for his application of disruptive
innovation to the social issues of education and healthcare.
Clark Professor of Business
Administration at the Harvard
Business School. An advisor
to numerous countries and
companies, including the
government of Singapore, he
Bestselling books available at SIM Library:
Disruptive class (2011)
The innovative university (2011)
The innovator’s DNA (2011)
Seeing what’s next (2004)
The innovator’s solution (2003)
Featured works available at SIM Library Online Databases:
ABI-INFORM Complete – journal articles
Business Source Complete (Harvard Business Review) – journal articles
Factiva – newspaper articles
JSTOR – journal articles
is currently a board member
at India’s Tata Consultancy
Services , Franklin Covey, W.R.
Hambrecht, and Vanu.
Christensen also applies his
frameworks via management
consultancy Innosight which
he co-founded in 2000, and
Rose Park Advisors, an
investment firm he founded in
2007.
Strategy used to be about
protecting existing
competitive advantage, but
not anymore. Today it is
about finding the next
advantage.
Vijay Govindarajan
– Vijay Govindarajan
Areas of Expertise:
 Global strategy and
organization
 Industry transformation
 Strategy and Innovation
Profile
Govindarajan, an expert on
Accomplishment
 Winner of 2012 Best Paper Award Innovation Management and 2006 Accenture Award by California
Management Review
 Recipient of 2012 Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity Visionary Award for Reverse Innovation
strategy and innovation, was the
first Professor-in-Residence and
Chief Innovation Consultant at
General Electric. He has been
 Awarded the Breakthrough Idea Award for the $300 House idea by Thinkers 50
cited by BusinessWeek, The
 Hailed as an Emerging Business Brain by London Times
Economist, Forbes, and The
 Ranked as one of the Top 5 Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy (Forbes) and one of the Top 10
London Times as a top thought
Professors in Corporate Executive Education (Business Week)
Bestselling books available at SIM Library:
How Stella saved the farm : a tale about making innovation happen (2013)
Reverse innovation : create far from home, win everywhere (2012)
The other side of Innovation: solving the execution challenge (2010)
Ten rules for strategic innovators: from idea to execution (2005)
Featured works available at SIM Library e-Resources:
leader in strategy. Govindarajan
is known for his concept of
reverse innovation, where
innovation takes place in
emerging markets and is brought
back to developed countries. The
concept has been rated by
Harvard Business Review as one
ABI-INFORM Complete – Journal articles
of the ten big ideas of the
Business Source Complete (Harvard Business Review) – Journal articles
decade.
Factiva – Newspaper articles
JSTOR – Journal articles
Jim Collins
Areas of Expertise:
 Business consultant, author
and lecturer
 Company sustainability and
You can't manufacture
passion or "motivate"
people to feel passionate.
You can only discover
what ignites your passion
and the passions of those
around you.
– Jim Collins
growth
 Empirical business research
 Leadership in business
Profile
Jim Collins is a renowned
author, a student of enduring
great companies and he serves
as a teacher and mentor to
leaders throughout the
Accomplishment
corporate and social sectors.
 Recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award (1992) from the Stanford University Graduate
Formerly a faculty member at
School of Business
 Ranked #06 in the Thinkers 50 2005 ranking of Management Gurus
the Stanford University
Graduate School of Business,
where he received the
Best-selling books available at SIM Library:
Great by choice : uncertainty, chaos, and luck : why some thrive despite
them all (2011)
HBR’s ten must reads on leadership (2011)
How the mighty fall: and why some companies never give in (2009)
Good to great: why some companies make the leap and some don’t (2001)
Featured works available at SIM Library Online Databases:
Academic Search Premier – journal articles
Business Book Summaries – book summaries
Business Source Complete –journal articles
Distinguished Teaching Award,
Jim now works from his
management research
laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
Jim invests a significant portion
of his energy in large-scale
research projects to develop
fundamental insights and then
translate those findings into
books, articles and lectures.
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