(Reuters) 
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced that three of its professors – W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne and Herminia Ibarra – have been named to the 2011 Thinkers50 – the definitive global ranking of management thinkers who have had an impact on business.
Professors Kim and Mauborgne were placed second overall on the list of highly regarded luminaries in the business world. Renée Mauborgne was the highest ranked woman appearing on the list and Herminia Ibarra was shortlisted for the 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award, being placed number 28 overall among the World’s Top 50 Thinkers. Kim and Mauborgne are INSEAD professors of strategy and management and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. They are authors of the best-selling Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant which highlights how companies can create uncontested market space through value innovation. Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over two million copies and has been embraced by companies, not-for-profits, and national governments around the world. The INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute was launched in 2007 as a result of the strong interest around the globe in the theory of blue ocean strategy. Today the Institute thrives as an intellectual hub with its Institute Executive Fellows coming from the best schools across the globe.