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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In recent years, for instance, Christensen has applied his ideas to healthcare and education — showing how enlightened management thinking can tackle the big issues facing society.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Apple still has an edge, in that it built that sea — "so powerful is blue ocean strategy," Chan and Mauborgne write, "that a blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades." But you have to think that, to really stay on top, Apple needs to find more blue oceans to conquer.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .” It’s tempting to think the third camp — reacting opportunistically to emerging possibilities — represents the field’s most recent thinking.