On 17 October 2022, The Case Centre revealed its list of bestselling case authors for the 2021/22 academic year. A place in the top 50 is an extraordinary achievement, as over 9,700 faculty are registered as authors with The Case Centre.

Highlights

The 2021/22 ranking has a truly global reach featuring 21 schools, from 9 countries, on 4 continents.

The late Debapratim Purkayastha of ICFAI Business School (IBS), who sadly passed away in May 2021, is top of the ranking for a seventh straight year.

Fellow ICFAI Business School faculty member, Indu Perepu, remains at no.2, and is the highest-ranked female author in the list. The positive trend of female representation continues for a second successive year (2021/22: 22%; 2020/21: 18%; 2019/20: 12.5%).

This year there were seven new entries, the highest of which is Columbia Business School’s Todd Jick, who rounds off the top 10. Meanwhile, INSEAD and ICFAI Business School dominate the top 10, boasting four and three authors, respectively.

As for the wider top 50, Harvard Business School rank highest with nine authors, followed closely by ICFAI Business School (seven), INSEAD (seven) and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) (six).

And at no.27, Sandra Vandermerwe is Africa’s first Bestselling Case Author, flying the flag for Gordon Institute of Business Studies (GIBS), University of Pretoria.

See all the trends in an infographic.

Meet the authors

Browse the full list of bestselling authors, discover their cases and learn why they believe in the enduring importance of case writing and teaching as a fundamental cornerstone of business education. www.thecasecentre.org/Top50CaseAuthors2022

1 Debapratim Purkayastha, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
2 Indu Perepu, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
3 W Chan Kim, INSEAD (joint)
3 Renée Mauborgne, INSEAD (joint)
5 Christopher A Bartlett, Harvard Business School
6 Wolfgang Ulaga, INSEAD
7 Syeda Maseeha Qumer, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
8 Kamran Kashani, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
9 Kasra Ferdows, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
10 Todd Jick, Columbia Business School
11 Joerg Niessing, INSEAD
12 Vivek Gupta, Market Xcel Data Matrix Private Limited
13 Michael Lewis, University of Bath School of Management (joint)
13 Jose AD Machuca, Universidad de Sevilla (joint)
15 Elizabeth Grasby, Ivey Business School
16 David B Yoffie, Harvard Business School
17 Jill Avery, Harvard Business School
18 Ian Dunn, Ivey Business School
19 Benjamin Esty, Harvard Business School
20 Robert F Bruner, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
21 Garima Ratna, Amity Research Centre
22 Ashok Som, ESSEC Business School
23 David J Collis, Harvard Business School
24 Herminia Ibarra, London Business School
25 Rajiv Fernando, Quality Austria Gulf
26 Pierre Chandon, INSEAD
27 Sandra Vandermerwe, Gordon Institute of Business Studies (GIBS)
28 Peter Killing, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
29 Carlos Cordon, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
30 John A Quelch, Miami Business School
31 Denis Gromb, HEC Paris
32 David Dubois, INSEAD
33 Jamie Anderson, Antwerp Management School
34 Jitesh Nair, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
35 Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School
36 Stefan Michel, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
37 V Namratha Prasad, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
38 James E Hatch, Ivey Business School
39 June Cotte, Ivey Business School
40 Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD
41 Dominique Turpin, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
42 Willy Shih, Harvard Business School
43 Juan Alcacer, Harvard Business School
44 Sanjib Dutta, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
45 Benoit Leleux, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
46 Nader Tavassoli, London Business School
47 Sean D Carr, Global Innovation Exchange, University of Washington
48 Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE Business School
49 GV Mralidhara, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
50 Vincent Dessain, Harvard Business School

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