Strategy, Innovation and Business Model Theorists

He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation.

He is credited with creating Porter's five forces analysis, a foundational framework in strategic management that remains widely used in both academia and industry.

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian academic and author on business and management.

Clayton Magleby Christensen (April 6, 1952, January 23, 2020) was an American academic and business consultant who developed the theory of "disruptive innovation", which has been called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century.

Prahalad is the co-author of a number of works in corporate strategy, including The Core Competence of the Corporation (with Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990) which as of 2010 was one of the most frequently reprinted articles published by the journal.

Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and as of 2024, Distinguished Scholar of Strategy and Innovation at the University of South Florida Muma College of Business.

He is known as the father of strategic management.

His contributions to transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm have been influential in the social sciences, law and economics.

Robert Edward Freeman (born December 18, 1951) is an American philosopher and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia, particularly known for his work on stakeholder theory (1984) and on business ethics.

Alexander Osterwalder (born 1974) is a Swiss business theorist, author, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur, known for his work on business modeling and the development of the Business Model Canvas.

He is known for his 1984 article, "A Resource-Based View of the Firm", which named and started the development of the resource-based view (RBV) in strategic management.

Eric Ries (born September 22, 1978) is an American entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup, a book on the lean startup movement.

Francis Joseph Aguilar (August 19, 1932, February 17, 2013) was an American scholar of strategic planning and general management.

He is known for coining the term open innovation

He is known as co-author of the 2005 book Blue Ocean Strategy

She is known as co-author of the 2005 book Blue Ocean Strategy

Professor Barney's 1991 paper has developed a framework

first to develop the use of scenario planning in the private sector