ANIL K. GUPTA AND HAIYAN WANG HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE THINKERS50 HALL OF FAME 2024. For three decades, Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang have been at the forefront of analysing globalisation trends. Born in India and China respectively they founded the Washington DC-based China India Institute in 2007, leveraging their combined 60 years of research,...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies had to redeploy their talent at speed and scale. Verizon redirected nearly 20,000 store-based employees to leverage their skills in other roles. Bank of America redeployed 30,000 employees to deal with the influx of calls and digital customer inquiries. This session examines the rise of skills-based job...

LYNDA GRATTON HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE THINKERS50 HALL OF FAME 2024. Professor of Practice at London Business School, Lynda Gratton has been a fixture in the Thinkers50 Ranking since 2011. Her acclaimed books include Redesigning Work, The 100-Year Life (with Andrew Scott), The Shift, Glow, and Hot Spots.  Lynda is also the founder of advisory practice,...

TERESA AMABILE HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE THINKERS50 HALL OF FAME 2024. Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, has made significant contributions to our understanding of creativity and motivation in the workplace. Her groundbreaking 45-year research program explored how work environments influence these crucial...

PRESS RELEASE 30 September 2024 THINKERS50 HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES NEW INDUCTEES LONDON – Thinkers50 (thinkers50.com), the global platform for management thinking, today announced the new inductees to its Management Hall of Fame in partnership with the Haier Group. The new inductees are: Teresa M. Amabile The Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of...

At a McKinsey leadership event held in London, thirty women executives from diverse industries and around the globe were asked to write a story about a situation where something went wrong and they felt like a failure. When the women started to share their stories with the group, the first was in tears by the end of her presentation. Then the second...