Management guru rock star

Michael Eugene Porter is the nearest man to a rock star status when you talk about management gurus :

The thinker 50, which provides a ranking of the most influential living management thinkers, ranked him #1 in 2005 and 2006 (notably ahead Bill Gates or Alan Greenspan), and #4 in 2007.

Among others, he's famous for his Porter's five force analysis, which determines the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market, and is now a benchmark in the industry. Particularly, strategy consultants use this framework when making a qualitative evaluation of a firm's strategic position.

M. Porter redefined the way companies understand and achieve their competitive advantage. He also advised countries on competition and clusters of competence for regional economic development.

He's famous for his style, the extent he breaks up his thoughts on bullet points, which makes him a thinker frustratingly unquotable. The star has his own Institute for Strategy and Competitivness at Harvard Business School, and he also found the time to set up a successful global consulting firm called Monitor...