List of Great Thinkers

This is an annotated list of important business writers. It is in alphabetical order based on last name. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:

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A

David Aaker

Wil van der Aalst

James Abegglen

Bodo Abel

Peter Abelard

Abraham

Russell L. Ackoff

John Adair

Karol Adamiecki

Ichak Adizes

Mortimer Adler

Niclas Adler

Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d’Agoult

Yoji Akao

Ali Akdemir

George Arthur Akerlof

Mark Albion

Howard E. Aldrich

Leon P. Alford

Dante Alighieri

Maurice Allais

Tim Ambler

Igor Ansoff

Antisthenes

Thomas Aquinas

Ingeman Arbnor

Archimedes

Chris Argyris

Aristotle

Horace Lucian Arnold

Kenneth Arrow

Neal Ashkanasy

Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

John Langshaw Austin

Richard Avenarius

Saint Teresa of Avila

Alfred Jules Ayer

B

Louis Bachelier

Francis Bacon

Michael Bakunin

Paul Baran

Rodney Barker

Stephen R. Barley

Chester Barnard

Robert Barro

William Baumol

Pierre Bayle

Simone de Beauvoir

Gary Becker

Charles Bedaux

Hilaire Belloc

Warren Bennis

Jeremy Bentham

Per Olof Berg

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)

Manfred Berliner

Daniel Bernoulli

Jakob Bernoulli

Eduard Bernstein

Joseph Bertrand

Björn Bjerke

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

William Blake

Ken Blanchard

Louis-Auguste Blanqui

Boethius

Niels Bohr

Saint Bonaventure

Charles Bonnet

Charles Bosanquet

Matthew Boulton

Pierre Bourdieu

Marvin Bower

Richard Boyatzis

Francis Herbert Bradley

Georges Braque

Franz Brentano

Leland Lawrence Briggs

Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

John Seely Brown

Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown

Nils Brunsson

Martin Buber

James Buchanan

Buddha

Comte de Buffon

Edmund Burke

James Burnham

Lawton Burns

James MacGregor Burns

John W Burton

C

Alexander Calder

John Calvin

Albert Camus

Antonio Canaletto

Antonio Canova

Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Noel Capon

Rudolf Carnap

Charles U. Carpenter

Carlo Carra

Annibale Carracci

Gustav Cassel

Jean-Luc Cerdin

Paul Cezanne

Edward Chamberlin

James A. Champy

Alfred D. Chandler

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Hollis Chenery

Giorgio de Chirico

Jesus Christ

Clayton M. Christensen

Alexander Hamilton Church

West Churchman

Cicero

Zeno of Citium

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

John Bates Clark

John Maurice Clark

Stewart Clegg

Ronald Coase

George Douglas Howard Cole

Robin George Collingwood

James C. Collins

Auguste Comte

Marie Antoine Condorcet

Confucius

Morris Llewellyn Cooke

Cary Cooper

Nicholas Copernicus

Antoine Augustin Cournot

Stephen Covey

Benedetto Croce

Philip B. Crosby

Saint John of the Cross

Ralph Cudworth

Richard Cyert

Barbara Czarniawska

D

Robert Dahl

Robert Dahlstrom

David Dale

Charles Darwin

Thomas H. Davenport

Jacques Louis David

Donald Davidson

George S. Day

Gerard Debreu

Jeff DeGraff

Morris H. DeGroot

Robert Delaunay

Edwards Deming

Democritus

Daniel R. Denison

Eric Dent

Rene Descartes

John Dewey

Hugo Diemer

Jan Dietz

Wilhelm Dilthey

Patrick Dixon

Evsey Domar

Henk van Dongen

Sytse Douma

Wiebe Draijer

Peter Drucker

W.E.B. DuBois

Anna Dubois

Jean Dubuffet

Pierre-Maurice Duhem

Michael Dummett

Peter Dunn

Jules Dupuit

Emile Durkheim

E

David Easton

Meister Eckhart

Francis Edgeworth

Jonathan Edwards

Andrew S.C. Ehrenberg

Albert Einstein

Michael Eisner

Parmenides of Elea

Zeno of Elea

Norbert Elias

Chester Elton

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Empedocles

Sextus Empiricus

Ernst Engel (1821-1896)

Friedrich Engels

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Epictetus

Desiderius Erasmus

Tunç Erem

Richard F. Ericson

Hans-Erik Eriksson

Agner Krarup Erlang

Hamid Etemad

Euclid

Leonhard Euler

F

Henri Fayol

Armand V. Feigenbaum

Tim Ferriss

Harry Anson Finney

Irving Fisher

Ronald Fisher

Mary Follett

Nicolai J. Foss

George Fox

Andre Gunder Frank

Edward Freeman

Gottlob Frege

Paulo Freire

Sigmund Freud

Milton Friedman

Caspar David Friedrich

Erich Fromm

Mike L. Fry

Adrian Furnham

G

Naum Gabo

Hans-Georg Gadamer

John Kenneth Galbraith

Galileo Galilei

Francis Galton

Henry Gantt

Burleigh B. Gardner

Pierre Gassendi

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Paul Gauguin

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Michael Gerber

Arnold Geulincx

Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Sumantra Ghoshal

Robert Giffen

John P. van Gigch

Frank Bunker Gilbreth

Frank Gilbreth

Seth Godin

William Godwin

Erving Goffman

Vincent van Gogh

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Marshall Goldsmith

Daniel Goleman

Nelson Goodman

Vytautas Andrius Graiciunas

Antonio Gramsci

Lynda Gratton

Jackson Grayson

Danny Greefhorst

Miriam Green

James Bray Griffith

Hugo Grotius

William H. Gruber

Che Guevara

Erich Gutenberg

H

Jurgen Habermas

Stephan H. Haeckel

Stephen G. Haines

Noel Frederick Hall

Brian Halligan

Gary Hamel

Richard Hamilton

Michael Hammer

Charles Handy

Alvin Hansen

Paul Harmon

Charter Harrison

Roy Harrod

David Hartley

Sven A. Haugland

David L. Hawk

Igor Hawryszkiewycz

Friedrich Hayek

Eli Heckscher

Friedrich Hegel

Martin Heidegger

Werner Heisenberg

Walter Heller

Robert Heller

Carl Gustav Hempel

Frederick Herzberg

John Hicks

Steen Hildebrandt

Charles DeLano Hine

Hippocrates

Albert Hirschman

Thomas Hobbes

Geert Hofstede

Kenneth Hopper

Harold Hotelling

Yasheng Huang

David Hume

Albert S Humphrey

Shelby D. Hunt

Walter Hunziker

Edmund Husserl

Thomas Henry Huxley

I

Masaaki Imai

Anders Indset

Kaoru Ishikawa

J

Mike Jackson

Lars Jaeger

William James

John Jantsch

Karl Jaspers

Thomas Jefferson

Dave Jenks

Anita Jose

Miguel de Unamuno Y Jugo

Carl Gustav Jung

Joseph M. Juran

K

Richard Kahn

Nicholas Kaldor

Michal Kalecki

Immanuel Kant

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Robert S. Kaplan

Dexter Keezer

Kevin Lane Keller

Johannes Kepler

Roy B. Kester

John Maynard Keynes

Tarun Khanna

Walter Kickert

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

John Warren Kindt

Charles Edward Knoeppel

Richard Koch

Lars Kolind

Willem de Kooning

Monika Kostera

Philip Kotler

John Kotter

Saul Kripke

Prince Peter Kropotkin

Thomas Samuel Kuhn

Joe Kutchera

Vladimir Kvint

L

Arthur Laffer

John Christian Langli

Jean-Claude Larréché

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

Kyoung Jun Lee

Henri Lefebvre

William Henry Leffingwell

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Paul Leonardi

Wassily Leontief

Abba Lerner

Leucippus

Harry Levinson

Theodore Levitt

George Henry Lewes

Michael Lewis

Erik Lindahl (1891-1960)

Peter Lindgren

John Lintner

El Lissitzky

Thomas Williams of Llanidan

John Locke

Ted London

Juan Antonio Pérez López

Jay Lorsch

Rudolph Hermann Lotze

Michael Lounsbury

Robert Lucas

Lucretius

Randi Lunnan

Reijo Luostarinen

Martin Luther

James Alexander Lyons

M

John Van Maanen

Ernst Mach

Niccolo Machiavelli

Kenneth D. Mackenzie

Moses Maimonides

Nicolas Malebranche

Kasimir Malevich

Teemu Malmi

Thomas Malthus

Vincent Mangematin

Gabriel Marcel

James G. March

Constantinos Markides

Harry Markowitz

Alfred Marshall

Perry Marshall

Karl Marx

Henri Matisse

James Clerk Maxwell

Elton Mayo

John H. McArthur

Daniel McCallum

Douglas McGregor

Dalton McGuinty.

George Herbert Mead

Geoff Meeks

Lucas Meijs

Alexius von Meinong

Leo Melamed

Gregor Johann Mendel

Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Gary Metcalf

Henry C. Metcalf

Henry Metcalfe

Robert Michels

Gerald Midgley

John Stuart Mill

Danny Miller

Merton Miller

Henry Mintzberg

Ludwig von Mises

Richard von Mises

Francois Modigliani

Franco Modigliani

Piet Mondrian

Claude Monet

Michel de Montaigne

Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

George Edward Moore

Geoffrey Moore

Richard Moran

Henry More

Thomas More

Gareth Morgan

Gerry Morgan

Silvina Moschini

Moses

Prophet Muhammad

Robert Mundell

Hugo Münsterberg

Keith Murnighan

Benito Mussolini

John Muth

Christa Muth

N

Guru Nanak

Peter Naudé

Nicholas Negroponte

John von Neumann

John Henry Newman

Isaac Newton

Reinhold Niebuhr

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobuo Noda

Kjell A. Nordström

Arne Nygaard

O

William of Ockham

George S. Odiorne

David Ogilvy

Bertil Ohlin

Kenichi Ohmae

Taiichi Ohno

Arthur Okun

Mancur Olson

Origen

Sharon Oster

William Ouchi

Robert Owen

Amédée Ozenfant

P

Luca Pacioli

Thomas Paine

Krishna Palepu

Eduardo Paolozzi

Vilfredo Pareto

Talcott Parsons

Blaise Pascal

Scott Patterson

Keith Pavitt

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edith Penrose

Javier Perez-Capdevila

Oscar E. Perrigo

Francois Perroux

Ralph Barton Perry

Laurence J. Peter

Thomas J. Peters

William Petty

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Robert Allen Phillips

Francis Picabia

Pablo Picasso

Rebecca Piekkari

Arthur Cecil Pigou

Max Planck

Plato

Plotinus

Jules Henri Poincare

Henry Varnum Poor

Karl Popper

Michael Porter

Nicos Poulantzas

K. Prahalad

Raul Prebisch

Protagoras

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Ptolemy

Derek S. Pugh

Hilary Putnam

Q

Francois Quesnay

Thomas De Quincey

Willard Van Orman Quine

 

R

Donald R. de Raadt

Navi Radjou

Karl Rahner

Frank Ramsey

Ayn Rand

Ravichandaran

John Rawls

Jeffrey Rayport

Ronald Reagan

Charles Redding

Robert Reich

Fred Reichheld

Thomas Reid

Reg Revans

David Ricardo

Jeremy Rifkin

Joan Robinson

Alexander Rodchenko

Fritz Roethlisberger

Georges Romme

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Mike Rother

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bertrand Russell

Gilbert Ryle

S

Martti Saario

Kenan Sahin

Epicurus of Samos

Melissus of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos

George Santayana

Edward Sapir

Mohammad Ali Sarlak

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jason Saul

Jean-Baptiste Say

August-Wilhelm Scheer

Edgar Schein

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Moritz Schlick

Eugen Schmalenbach

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hein Schreuder

Erwin Schrodinger

Joseph Schumpeter

David Meerman Scott

Walter Dill Scott

Esbjörn Segelod

Roy Wood Sellars

Peter Senge

Dorian Shainin

Stanley J. Shapiro

Seena Sharp

Oliver Sheldon

Walter A. Shewhart

Shigeo Shingo

Herbert Simon

Hans Singer

Diogenes of Sinope

Ibrahim Sirkeci

Eugen Slutsky

Adrian Slywotzky

Linda Smircich

Adam Smith

Ivan Snehota

Socrates

Henk G. Sol

Rolf Solli

Robert Solow

Georges Sorel

Herbert Spencer

Baruch Spinoza

Piero Sraffa

Joseph Stalin

Thomas J. Stanley

Andy Stefanovich

Rudolf Steiner

Victor Hermann Stempf

Joel Stern

Rosemary Stewart

Antonio Strati

Peter Frederick Strawson

Robert I. Sutton

A. Swanson

Richard A. Swanson

William R. Synnott

T

Genichi Taguchi

Don Tapscott

Vladimir Tatlin

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Sridhar Tayur

David Teece

Vern Terpstra

Jacques Thomassen

Bertrand Thompson

Thomas Thorburn

Henry David Thoreau

Johann von Thunen

Charles Tiebout

Paul Tillich

James Tobin

Alvin Toffler

Robert Torrens

Jean-Marie Toulouse

Phil Town

Henry R. Towne

Arnold Toynbee

John Tregoning

Leon Trotsky

Jack Trout

Josiah Tucker

Bruce Tuckman

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dominique Turpin

U

Yoichi Ueno

Werner Ulrich

Lyndall Urwick

V

Peter Vaill

Andrew H. Van de Ven

Jan Vanthienen

Hal Varian

Victor Vasarely

Antoaneta Vassileva

Thorstein Veblen

Giambattista Vico

Jacob Viner

Henrik Virkkunen

Henk Volberda

Voltaire

Victor Vroom

W

André de Waal

Jean-Baptiste Waldner

Immanuel Wallerstein

Leon Walras

Alexandra Waluszewski

James Watt

Max Weber

Frank E. Webner

Karl E. Weick

Simone Weil

Lawrence Welch

Joseph Wharton

Alasdair A. K. White

Alfred North Whitehead

John Whitmore

Eli Whitney

Knut Wicksell

Philip Wicksteed

Jennifer Wilby

Nassau William

Oliver E. Williamson

Mark W. Willis

Pieter Winsemius

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft

Clinton Edgar Woods

X

Y

Candace A. Yano

Z

Udo Zander

Mao Zedong

Lao Zi

Zoroaster

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