The Most-Read Case Studies Of 2021, And The Profs Who Wrote Them

Harvard Business School is the home of the business case study. Once again it is also where most of the top-ranked cases were written in 2021

Beyond its ranking of case study authors, the Case Centre trains faculty in using case studies in B-school education, runs international case competitions and offers scholarships to unpublished case writers and teachers. Membership includes more than 500 business schools and organizations around the world.

See its full release and read about other best-selling authors here.

1. The Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2020/21 – full list

1    Debapratim Purkayastha, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
2    Indu Perepu, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
3    Syeda Maseeha Qumer, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
4    W Chan Kim, INSEAD (joint)
4    Renée Mauborgne, INSEAD (joint)
6    Joerg Niessing, INSEAD
7    Christopher A Bartlett, Harvard Business School
8    Wolfgang Ulaga, INSEAD
9    David B Yoffie, Harvard Business School
10  Nader Tavassoli, London Business School
11  Ashok Som, ESSEC Business School
12  Jill Avery, Harvard Business School
13  Kamran Kashani, Institute for Management Development (IMD)
14  Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School
15  Kasra Ferdows, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
16  John A Quelch, Miami Business School
17  David Dubois, INSEAD
18  Carlos Cordon, Institute for Management Development (IMD)
19 Michael Lewis, University of Bath School of Management (joint)
19 Jose A D Machuca, Universidad de Sevilla (joint)
21  David J Collis, Harvard Business School
22 Pierre Chandon, INSEAD
23  Mohanbir Sawhney, Kellogg School of Management
24  Robert F Bruner, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
25  Denis Gromb, HEC Paris
26  Urs Mueller, SDA Bocconi School of Management
27  Vivek Gupta, TechSci Research
28  Jamie Anderson, Antwerp Management School
29  Benoit Leleux, Institute for Management Development (IMD)
30  Sanjib Dutta, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
31  Vincent Dessain, Harvard Business School
32  GV Muralidhara, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
33  Jitesh Nair, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
34  Michael J Schill, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
35  Elizabeth Grasby, Ivey Business School
36  Horacio Falcão, INSEAD
37  Robert S Kaplan, Harvard Business School
38  Seán A Meehan, Institute for Management Development (IMD)
39  Herminia Ibarra, London Business School
40  Ian Dunn, Ivey Business School
41  Peter Killing, Institute for Management Development (IMD)
42  Stefan Michel, Institute for Management Development (IMD)
43  Jan W Rivkin, Harvard Business School
44  Inyoung Chae, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
45  Sean D Carr, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
46  James E Hatch, Ivey Business School
47  Thales Teixeira, Decoupling.co
48  Eric Van den Steen, Harvard Business School
49  V Namratha Prasad, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
50  P Fraser Johnson, Ivey Business School

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