#1 Management Thinkers in the World
Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are Professors of Strategy at INSEAD, one of the world’s top business schools, and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France. In 2019, Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne were named the #1 Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50. They are the authors of the over 4 million copy international bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy which is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, and the New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Los Angeles Times Bestseller Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing – Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth.
Blue Ocean Strategy, which is published in 46 languages, has hit more than 300 bestseller lists across the globe and has received numerous distinguished awards from the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking to Fast Company’s Hall of Fame. The Financial Times called it “one of the bestselling business books of the century”.
Only two years out, and Blue Ocean Shift is already a global bestseller and being published in over 30 languages. It is the winner of the “Best Strategy and Leadership book 2017” by 800-CEO-READ, “Best Business and Leadership Books of 2017” by Amazon, with Apple iBooks calling it “one of the biggest books of the year”.
To date, Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift teaching materials have been adopted by over 2800 universities in over 100 countries across the globe. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are ranked in the Global Top 10 Bestselling Authors at The Case Centre out of over 8,000 business professors.
Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne advise, consult and speak to companies and governments worldwide, and have published numerous global bestselling articles in Harvard Business Review as well as in The Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, among others. They are the founders of the Blue Ocean Global Network (BOGN), a global community of practice on the Blue Ocean family of concepts that they created. BOGN embraces academics, consultants, executives, and government officers.