Below list was created by Accenture in 2002: 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
- 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
- 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
- David Teece
- Don Peppers