Below list was created by Accenture in 2003: Accenture used the term 'business intellectuals' for the following 50:
- Michael E. Porter
- Tom Peters
- Robert Reich
- Peter Drucker
- Peter Senge
- Gary S. Becker
- Gary Hamel
- Alvin Toffler
- Hal Varian
- Daniel Goleman
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Ronald Coase
- Lester Thurow
- Charles Handy
- Paul Romer
- Henry Mintzberg
- Michael Hammer
- Stephen Covey
- Warren Bennis
- Bill Gates
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Philip Kotler
- Robert C Merton
- C. K. Prahalad
- Thomas H. Davenport
- Don Tapscott
- Malcolm Gladwell
- John Seely Brown
- George Gilder
- Kevin Kelly
- Chris Argyris
- Robert Kaplan
- Esther Dyson
- Edward de Bono
- Jack Welch
- John Kotter
- Ken Blanchard
- Edward Tufte
- Kenichi Ohmae
- Alfred Chandler
- Janmes MacGregor Burns
- Sumantra Ghoshal
- Edgar Schein
- Myron S. Scholes
- James March
- Richard Branson
- Anthony Robbins
- Clayton Christensen
- Michael Dell
- John Naisbitt
Compared to the list of 2002 Accenture decided to drop David Teece (49) and Don Peppers (50) in favor of Paul Romer (the new number 15) and Malcolm Gladwell (the new number 27).