Renée Mauborgne
Renée Mauborgne is The INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD, the world's second-largest business school. A renowned economist and business theorist, she is one of the world's bestselling authors. She is the highest placed woman ever on Thinkers 50. Mauborgne also has published numerous articles in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her Harvard Business Review articles, co-authored with W. Chan Kim, are worldwide bestsellers and have sold over half a million reprints.
Professor Mauborgne received the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking 2008 and is the winner of the Eldridge Haynes Prize, awarded by the Academy of International Business and the Eldridge Haynes Memorial Trust of Business International, for the best original paper in the field of international Business
She was ranked No. 2 on The Thinkers50 2011 list of the world's top management gurus. She also won the 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award for her research on blue ocean strategy.
She was selected for the 2011 Leadership Hall of Fame by FastCompany magazine. She is the winner of the Prix DCF 2009 (Prix des Dirigeants Commerciaux de France 2009) in the category of Stratégie d’entreprise
She received the 2007 Asia Brand Leadership Award and is also the winner of several European Case Clearing House awards including ‘Best Case in Strategy’ in 2008 and ‘Best Overall Case’ in 2009 across all disciplines.