Ram Charan, rank #24
Ram Charan is a low-profile CEO coach, adviser, author and teacher who has worked at some of the most successful companies in the world. These include General Electric, Novartis, KLM and Verizon.
His expertise in corporate governance emerges from his experience in helping top managements of various companies with strategy sessions, succession, self-evaluation and CEO compensation.
He has coached some of the world's best-known CEOs, including GE's Jack Welch and Honeywell's Larry Bossidy, and is today ranked as the world's 24th most influential management thinker.
Before earning an engineering degree and later an MBA and a doctorate from the Harvard Business School, Ram Charan worked in his family shoe store in India. He graduated from Harvard with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar. He also served as a faculty member at Harvard Business School.
Among executive educators, Ram Charan is very popular. He won the Bell Ringer (best teacher) award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute; and similar awards at Wharton and Northwestern. He was among BusinessWeek's top ten resources for in-house executive development programmes.
Ram Charan is the author of many influential books, including Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right and Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done.
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