Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency.[1] He was one of the first management consultants.[2] In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The Principles of Scientific Management which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management

Sridhar Tayur

Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker.[1][2] He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of SmartOps Corporation [3][4] and OrganJet Corporation.[5][6] Tayur is known as an “academic capitalist,”[7] recognized for his contribution to Inventory Theory,[8] Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, Operations Strategy,[9] Healthcare Management,

David Teece

David John Teece CNZM (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital[1] at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Teece is also the executive chairman and cofounder of Berkeley Research Group, an expert

Vern Terpstra

Vern Terpstra (August 20, 1927 – November 6, 2013) was Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.[1] He was a fellow of the Academy of International Business.[2][3] Biography Early life and education PHD, University Of Michigan, 1965 MBA, University Of Michigan, 1951 BBA, University Of Michigan, 1950 Career Professor Terpstra received his B.BA, M.BA,

Jacques Thomassen

Jacques J.A. Thomassen (born 23 September 1945) is a Dutch organizational theorist, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, known for his work on the theory of political and policy representation.[1][2][3] Biography Born in Diessen, Thomassen obtained his MA in Sociology in 1968 at

Bertrand Thompson

Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1882 – 1969) was an American business academic, chemist, business consultant and Unitarian minister. He was the first African-American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, known for his work on scientific management.[1] Thompson was the brother of Black newspaperman Noah Davis Thompson whose wife was Eloise Bibb Thompson. Thompson was also the uncle of Anita Thompson

Thomas Thorburn

Thomas William Thorburn (April 13, 1913 – March 13, 2003) was a Swedish economist, and Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics, known from his work on the “Supply and demand of water transport” (1960),[1] and the “Cost-benefit analysis in language planning” (1971).[2] Born in Uddevalla, Thorburn obtained his PhD in 1960 at the Stockholm School

Alvin Toffler

Alvin Eugene Toffler[1] (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world’s outstanding futurists.[2] Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early

Jean-Marie Toulouse

Jean-Marie Toulouse, CM OQ FRSC (born 1942) is a Canadian academic. He is a Professor and Director of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. In 2004, he was made an Officer (Officier) of the National Order of Quebec. In 1997, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Biographie Ttulaire d’un B. Ph. en psychologie, d’une L. Ps. et d’un

Phil Town

Philip Bradley Town (born 21 September 1948) is an American investor, motivational speaker, and author of two books on financial investment that were New York Times best-sellers. Early life and education Phil Town was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Newport High School in 1966. After four attempts at college, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University

Henry R. Towne

Henry Robinson Towne (August 24, 1844 – October 15, 1924) was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management.[1][2] He donated several millions to philanthropy at his death, in 1924.[3] Biography Towne was born in Philadelphia in 1844 to John Henry and Maria (Tevis) T. Towne.[4] He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862,

John Tregoning

John Tregoning (c. 1845 – c. 1920) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and business manager from Lynn, Massachusetts, known for writing one of the first books on factory operations in 1891.[1][2] and as early systematizer of management.[3][4] Biography Tregoning was educated as mechanical engineer and had started his career in industry in the 1860s. In the

Jack Trout

John Francis “Jack” Trout (January 31, 1935 – June 4, 2017) was an American advertising executive and an owner of Trout & Partners, a consulting firm. He was the founder and pioneer of positioning theory and also marketing warfare theory. Career Trout started his business career in the advertising department of General Electric. From there he went on to become a divisional advertising manager at

Josiah Tucker

Josiah Tucker (also Josias) (December 1713 – 4 November 1799), also known as Dean Tucker, was a Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer. He was concerned in his works with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American independence. He became Dean of Gloucester. Life He was born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire; his father inherited a small estate near Aberystwyth, and sent his son

Bruce Tuckman

Bruce Wayne Tuckman (November 24, 1938 – March 13, 2016) was an American Psychological Researcher who carried out his research into the theory of group dynamics.[1] In 1965, he published a theory known as “Tuckman’s stages of group development”. According to his theory, there are four phases of group development, they are: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing. In 1977,

Dominique Turpin

Dominique V. Turpin (born 12 January 1957, in Tours), a marketing professor at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) with research interests in brand management, marketing strategy and communications. He spent his childhood and adolescence in France and obtained his baccalaureate of Sciences with distinction in 1976. He studied at ESSCA from 1976 to 1980 and as

Werner Ulrich

Werner Ulrich (born 1948, Berne, Switzerland) is a Swiss social scientist and practical philosopher, and a former professor of the theory and practice of social planning at the University of Fribourg. He is known as one of the originators of critical systems thinking (CST) and in particular for the development of critical systems heuristics.[1][2] Life and work Ulrich received doctoral degrees in Economics and Social Sciences from the University

Lyndall Urwick

Lyndall Fownes Urwick MC (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration.[1][2] He wrote an influential book called The Elements of Business Administration, published in 1943.[3] With Luther Gulick, he founded the academic journal Administrative Science Quarterly.[4] Biography Youth

Peter Vaill

Peter Brown Vaill (November 5, 1936 – March 24, 2020) was an organizational change theorist who published widely in the fields of organizational behavior, organization development (O.D.), and leadership studies, including the intersection of spirituality and leadership.[1][2] Life Vaill was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on November 5, 1936, to Stanley and Elizabeth (Brown) Vaill. Peter’s father, who worked for

Andrew H. Van de Ven

Andrew H. Van de Ven (1945 – April 30, 2022) was an American organization scholar, and Professor Emeritus in the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. Biography Andrew H. Van de Ven received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Business Administration from St. Norbert College. Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972. Van de Ven taught at Kent