Thinkers50 scans, ranks and shares the very best in management ideas. Its definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years and is described by The Financial Times as the “Oscars of management thinking”. This year’s award winners include two professors who teach in the McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA program.
Henry Mintzberg, the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management, received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. “The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to someone who has had a long-term impact on the way people think about and practice management,” explains Thinkers50 co-founder Des Dearlove. “Henry Mintzberg has done that and much more. He has been an intellectual trailblazer from his very first book – The Nature of Managerial Work – to his work on strategy and his pioneering executive education programs.” (Read the full press release).
We couldn’t agree more! Henry Mintzberg’s thinking on the practice of management inspired much of the design of the EMBA McGill – HEC Montréal, including among other elements, the focus on reflection, the managerial mindsets that form five of the program’s modules, and the importance of drawing together managers of significant experience in order to use their work and businesses as a canvas for learning. He also teaches in the program’s Reflective and Analytic Mindset modules.
Yves Pigneur , a guest professor at HEC Montréal, and his colleague Alexander Osterwalder placed 15th on The Thinkers50 Ranking 2015. They also received one of the 11 Distinguished Achievement Awards (in the “Strategy” category) presented at the ceremony in November, in London.
These distinctions recognize the importance of their Business Model Canvas, which is taught in the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA program. (Read the full press release).
