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faculty in using case studies in B-school education, runs international case competitions and offers scholarships to unpublished case writers and teachers.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