The consultancy Accenture has long developed a ranking which remains fully in force, with the most representative of management. There were no surprises, Michael Porter, professor at the Harvard Business School and leading exponent of modern strategy, remains the most recognized management guru. I have decided to re-edit and expand this article because several readers have commented (rightly) that some of the figures I quote management and consulting, sometimes they are unknown. I’m also working on a directory on major consultancies in various areas of management that I hope to publish soon. The valuation was performed based on several factors: number of searches on Google Number of citations in the Social Sciences Citation Index Terms database. We report the top 20: 1. Michael Porter Father of modern strategy and author of best sellers as “Competitive Strategy” and “Competitive Advantage.” Currently is a professor at Harvard Business School.
2. Tom Peters, author of “In Search of Excellence”, explaining the qualities that differentiate the best companies from the rest. He has recently published “Liberation Management” and “The Pursuit of WOW”. 3. Robert B. Reich Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, known advocate of the rights of workers. He wrote “The Work of Nations.” He currently teaches at Brandeis University.
4. Peter F. Drucker considered the godfather of “Management Thinking.” Author of “Post-Capitalist Society” and “The Effective Executive.” He taught at Claremont College in 2005 and died nearly 95 years. 5. Gary S. Becker Nobel Prize in Economics for work in behavioral economy (behavioral economics).