Adam Smith

Adam Smith FRSA (16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ”The Father of Economics” or ”The Father of Capitalism”. Smith wrote two classic works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of

Adrian Slywotzky

Adrian J. Slywotzky (born in 1951 in New York City) is an American consultant of Ukrainian origin and the author of several books on economic theory and management. Biography Slywotzky was born in the family of Ukrainian immigrants from the Ivano-Frankivs’k region of Ukraine. After getting his undergraduate degree at Harvard, Slywotzky also received a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard

Albert S. Humphrey

Albert S. Humphrey (2 June 1926 – 31 October 2005) was an American business and management consultant who specialized in organizational management and cultural change. Initially earning degrees in chemical engineering in Illinois, he eventually moved to London. Humphrey developed the SWOT analysis technique while working for the Stanford Research Institute, now known as SRI International.[2] . SWOT is a strategic planning method

Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for his work, The Visible Hand: The

Armand V. Feigenbaum

Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (April 6, 1920[1][2] – November 13, 2014) was an American quality control expert and businessman.[3] He devised the concept of Total Quality Control which inspired Total Quality Management (TQM). Biography Feigenbaum Hall on the campus of Union College Feigenbaum received a bachelor’s degree from Union College, his master’s degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

C. K. Prahalad

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010)[1] was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He was the co-author of “Core Competence of the Corporation“[4] (with Gary Hamel) and “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid“[5](with Stuart L. Hart), about the business opportunity in

Charles Handy

Charles Handy CBE (born 1932) is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the “portfolio worker” and the “Shamrock Organization” (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the “Shamrock”). He has been rated among the Thinkers 50, a private list of

Chester Barnard

Chester Irving Barnard (November 7, 1886 – June 7, 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, The Functions of the Executive, sets out a theory of organization and of the functions of executives in organizations. The book has been widely assigned in university courses in management theory and organizational sociology.[2] Barnard

Chris Argyris

Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013[1]) was a Greek business theorist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, and held the position of “Thought Leader” at Monitor Group.[2] Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis,[citation needed] is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations. Biography Born into a family of Greek immigrants to the

Constantinos C. Markides

Constantinos C. Markides (born 1960) Cypriot management educator and Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School[1] (London, UK), since 1990. He was listed among the Forbes.com list of Most Influential Management Gurus (2009).[2] Life and work A native of Cyprus, he received a BA (Distinction) and MA in Economics from Boston University, MBA and DBA

Daniel McCallum

Daniel Craig McCallum (21 January 1815 – 27 December 1878) was a Scottish-born American railroad engineer, general manager of the New York and Erie Railroad and Union Brevet Major General during the American Civil War, known as one of the early pioneers of management. He set down a set of general principles of management,[1] and is credited for having developed the first modern organizational chart.[2] Biography

David Aaker

David Allen Aaker (born 1938) is an American organizational theorist, consultant and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a specialist in marketing with a focus on brand strategy.[1] He serves as Vice Chairman of Prophet.[2] Biography Aaker received his SB in Management from the MIT Sloan School of

Erich Gutenberg

Erich Gutenberg (* 13. Dezember 1897 in Herford; † 22. Mai 1984 in Köln) war ein deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Er gilt als Begründer der modernen deutschen Betriebswirtschaftslehre (BWL) nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Leben Gutenberg war Sohn eines Fabrikanten, besuchte das humanistische Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford und legte das Abitur im Frühjahr 1918 in einem Lazarett während des

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru.[1][2] He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and other TOC derived tools. He was the author of several business novels and non-fiction

Eugen Schmalenbach

Eugen Schmalenbach (20 August 1873 – 20 February 1955) was a German academic and economist. He was born in Halver, and attended the Leipzig College of Commerce starting in 1898. That college later became part of Leipzig University, only to emerge again as the Handelshochschule Leipzig. Schmalenbach is best known as a professor at

Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani (tiếng Ý: [ˈfraŋko modiʎˈʎani]; 18 tháng 6 năm 1918 – 25 tháng 9 năm 2003) là một nhà kinh tế học người Italia, ông cũng đã nhập quốc tịch Mỹ. Ông là một giáo sư tại trường quản lý MIT Sloan và Khoa kinh tế MIT, ông được nhận giải Nobel Kinh tế năm 1985. Cuộc đời

Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth (7 Tháng 7 năm 1868 – 14 tháng 6 năm 1924) là một người theo trường phái khoa học quản trị và là người tiên phong cho các nghiên cứu về thời gian và động tác, và có lẽ được biết đến nhiều nhất như là tác giả và nhân vật trung tâm

Frederick Herzberg

Frederick Irving Herzberg (April 18, 1923 – January 19, 2000[1]) was an American psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management.[2][3] He is most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory. His 1968 publication “One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?” had sold 1.2 million reprints by

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (29 tháng 3 năm 1856 – 21 tháng 3 năm 1915), được mọi người gọi là F. W. Taylor, là một kỹ sư cơ khí Mỹ đã tìm ra cách nâng cao năng suất công nghiệp. Là một nhà tư vấn quản lý trong những năm cuối đời, đôi khi ông được người ta gọi là “cha đẻ của quản lý

Gary Hamel

Dr. Gary P. Hamel (born 1954) is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago. Biography Hamel is a graduate of Andrews University (1975) and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (1990[2]). Hamel has been a Visiting Professor of International