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This ranking is expected every two years. Surprise, this year, is not the number one, the same as in 2007 - Professor of business strategy Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad-, but numbers two and three: journalist Malcolm Gladwell (18eil two years ago) and a new entrant, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize in economics. This is this year the head of the fifth edition of The Thinkers 50 top tiercé. Created in 2001 by two economic journalists and British consultants, Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, this classification means, since 2001, the 50 most influential thinkers in the world economy. Drafted on the basis of names submitted by Internet users and professionals or academics at the time, the list takes into account ten criteria: originality of ideas, international influence, impact on management practices...

Only 5 women

Of Indian origin, Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad dominates the top of Edition Edition. First in 2009 and 2007 and third in 2005, Professor at the Ross School of Business in Michigan, in the United States, is internationally known for his books of reflection and an iconoclastic essay on the business as the most effective solution to eradicate poverty. He also co-wrote with Gary Hamel (passed to the 10eplace 5eà) a bestseller on the strategy and competition ("the conquest of the future"). Malcolm Gladwell, journalist of the "Washington Post" and the "New Yorker", is the author of books full of anecdotes taken from military, food or music media. Paul Krugman is Professor at the University of Princeton and Nobel laureate. In addition to this trio of head, the list of 47 other names of the ranking lists an overwhelming majority of men: only 5 women therein.

Some emblematic ex-dirigeants of global companies and leaders appear in the ranking. Bill Gates (Microsoft) ranks the 7th place after being number two in 2007. On the side of new entrants as the Indian leader Ratan Tata (12th) is found the conformist Richard Branson (Virgin), number eight, won a place this year. Or Steve Jobs, Apple pattern, entered for the first time in the rankings in 2007, which made a dramatic rebound in the 29th place on the 4th. Other strong upwelling, those of the Marshall Goldsmith management specialist, 34eà 14, or Howard Gardner, the father of the theory of multiple intelligences, from 39eau 16erang.

No French

By contrast, there is also significant setbacks as those of Jack Welsh, fort ex-homme, General Electric, which drops the 8eà the 20eplace, and Professor Henry Mintzberg (from the 16th to the 33eplace). Also tumble for the gurus of management Charles Handy, Tom Peters, Jim Collins, Robert Kaplan, the consultant David Norton as well as Swedish economists Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstrale. The ex-patron of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, third in 2007, is purely and simply disappeared from the charts this year. Note also, a dozen of new entrants including inventor Bangladesh of microcredit Muhammad Yunus entrepreneur or the Nobel Prize in economics Joseph Stiglitz. As in 2007, new names appear, but for how long Al Gore and Donald Trump, new entrants in 2007, disappeared in 2009.

At the same time, some maintain their rank. This is the case of the great marketing specialist Philip Kotler or professors at the Insead Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, whose work "Blue ocean strategy" is hoisted to the rank of bestseller. Good place too, some personalities of Indian origin: co-founder of Infosys s. (Kris) (15th) Gopalakrishnan, coach leaders Ram Charan (13th) and professors Vijay Govindarajan (24th) and Rakesh Khurana (44th), Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad and Ratan Tata. In contrast, not a single French classification. Time where Henri Fayol, holding of the world economic thinking with Weber and Taylor, laid the principles of the administration of the companies appear below. In fact, it was in the early 20th century.