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Welcome to Thinkers50, one of the best online sources for brain food

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The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad. Thinkers50 offers the definitive global ranking of management thinkers and is published every two years. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer. The Thinkers50 has ten established criteria by which thinkers are [.].

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HBR on INSPIRING & EXECUTING INNOVATION: A book review by Bob Morris

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Harvard Business Review on INSPIRING & EXECUTING INNOVATION Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create and then deliver new or better products and services This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR. In this instance, its ten articles focus on one or [.].

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. And an August 2010 blog by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar challenged designers to create a house for $300 and set off a campaign to re-invent housing for the world's poorest people, building on C.K. Who is the most influential living management thinker?