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W. Chan Kim

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W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne are Professors of Strategy at INSEAD and Codirectors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. They are the authors of the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, BLUE OCEAN SHIFT and the international bestseller BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, which is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written. Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3.6 million copies, is being published in a record-breaking 46 languages, and is a bestseller across five continents. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne rank in the top 5 management gurus in the world in the Thinkers50 list, a title they have held for ten straight years, and are the recipients of numerous academic and management awards around the world including the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking, the Carl S. Sloane Award by the Association of Management Consulting Firms, the Leadership Hall of Fame by Fast Company, and the Eldridge Haynes Prize by the Academy of International Business, among others. They are Fellows of the World Economic Forum and the founders of the Blue Ocean Global Network. For more on these authors and their new book, BLUE OCEAN SHIFT, see blueoceanstrategy.com.

W. Chan Kim Books

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded (featuring "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy" by Michael E. Porter) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded (featuring "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy" by Michael E. Porter)

Harvard Business Review
Blue Ocean Strategy + Beyond Disruption Collection (2 Books) book cover

Blue Ocean Strategy + Beyond Disruption Collection (2 Books)

W. Chan Kim
Beyond Disruption book cover

Beyond Disruption

W. Chan Kim
HBR at 100 book cover

HBR at 100

Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection (5 Books) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection (5 Books)

Harvard Business Review
Blue Ocean Classics book cover

Blue Ocean Classics

W. Chan Kim
HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection

Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)

Harvard Business Review
Blue Ocean Shift book cover

Blue Ocean Shift

W. Chan Kim
Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Article “Red Ocean Traps” (2 Books) book cover

Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Article “Red Ocean Traps” (2 Books)

W. Chan Kim
Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Articles “Blue Ocean Leadership” and “Red Ocean Traps” (3 Books) book cover

Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Articles “Blue Ocean Leadership” and “Red Ocean Traps” (3 Books)

W. Chan Kim
Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Article “Blue Ocean Leadership” (2 Books) book cover

Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Article “Blue Ocean Leadership” (2 Books)

W. Chan Kim
Blue Ocean Leadership (Harvard Business Review Classics) book cover

Blue Ocean Leadership (Harvard Business Review Classics)

W. Chan Kim
Red Ocean Traps (Harvard Business Review Classics) book cover

Red Ocean Traps (Harvard Business Review Classics)

W. Chan Kim
The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader book cover

The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader

W. Chan Kim
Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books) book cover

Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books)

Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015 book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015

Harvard Business Review
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition book cover

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition

W. Chan Kim
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter)

Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

Harvard Business Review
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