There are many business leaders and management thinkers who have contributed and introduced various management theories or terms over the years. Here is a partial list of Business Strategy gurus or Management leaders and the term they coined or the strategy/management concept they are known for.
Guru | Management/Strategy Concept |
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Abraham Maslow | Hierarchy theory of motivation |
Adrian J Slywotzky | Value migration |
Alfred DuPont Chandler | Relationship between strategy and structure |
Andrew Grove | Strategic Inflection Point |
Baybrooke and Lindblom | Strategic decision-making process |
Bennett G – Stewart | EVA (Economic Vale Added) |
C K Prahalad and Gary Hamel | Core Competence, Bottom-of-the-pyramid |
Charles Handy | Virtual Organization, Outsourcing |
Chester Barnard | Communication and shared values in organizations |
Chris Argyris | Learning – single-loop and double-loop learning |
Chris Zook and James Allen | Adjacencies |
Christopher A Bartlett | Globalisation, Competition across borders |
Clayton M Christensen | Disruptive innovation |
Cliff Bowman | Relative price |
David Yoffie | Judo Strategy |
Douglas McGregor | Theory X and Theory Y |
Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger | Hawthorne experiments |
Frederick Herzberg | Two-factor theory of job satisfaction |
George Yip | Counterparry |
Henri Fayol | Problems of organizational structure |
Henry Mintzberg | Strategic Planning |
Igor Ansoff | Corporate Strategic Planning, popularizing SWOT analysis |
James Brian Quinn | Logical incrementalism |
James C Collins and Jerry I Porras | Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGS) |
James Tobin | Q-theory |
James Utterback | Innovation |
Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton | Knowing-Doing Gap |
Jim Collins | Hedgehog Principle |
Kaplan and Norton | Balanced Score-Card |
Kenichi Ohmae | Strategy, Globalization |
Kurt Lewin | Force Field Analysis |
Laurence Peter | Peter Principle |
Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr. | Murphy’s law |
Mary Parker Follett | Collaborative and participative management and cross-functional problem solving |
Michael Cusumano | Strategic management of tech companies, Platform leadership and knowledge transfer across projects |
Michael E Porter | Five Forces Model, Value Chain |
Morton Grodzins | Tipping Point |
Pascale and Athos | McKinsey 7-S Framework |
Peter F Drucker | Father of modern management |
Paul Krugman | New trade theory |
Peter Senge | Learning organization |
Ray Noorda | Co-opetition |
Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan | Discovery Driven Planning |
Robert S McNamara | Systems analysis |
Ronald Coase | Transaction costs and Social Cost |
Russell Ackoff | Strategic/Corporate Planning |
Spender J C | Strategic recipes |
Stephen Covey | Emotional Intelligence |
Sumantra Ghoshal | Globalisation, Competition across borders |
Vijay Govindarajan | Reverse Innovation, Strategic Cost Management |
Vilfredo Pareto | Pareto’s Principle |
W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne | Blue Ocean Strategy |
William Edwards Deming | Total Quality Management |