A list of the top 50 busi­ness intel­lec­tu­als, as com­piled by Accen­ture in 2002. Ini­tially a list of 300, the top 50 were found using the fol­low­ing rankings:

  • Google hits
  • The Lex­is­Nexis media data­bases to 1997
  • Cita­tions found in the Sci­ence Cita­tion Index and Social Sci­ences Cita­tion Index to 1997

The top 5:

  1. Michael E. Porter
  2. Tom Peters
  3. Robert Reich
  4. Peter Drucker
  5. Peter Senge