Wiebe Draijer

Wiebe Draijer (born 27 August 1965) is a Dutch engineer, civil servant and management consultant who served as Chairman of the Social and Economic Council from 2012 to 2014.[1] Since 1 October 2014, he has been CEO of the Rabobank. Youth and education Born and growing up in Enschede, Draijer wanted to be a reporter, but an uncle advised him to

Peter Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ˈdrʌkər/; German: [ˈdʀʊkɐ]; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control,[1] and he has been described as

Anna Dubois

Anna Dubois (born April 20, 1962) is a Swedish organizational theorist and professor of technology management and economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, and director of Chalmers Transport Area of Advance. She is best known for her work with Lars-Erik Gadde on case study research,[1] boundaries of the firm,[2] and managing suppliers interfaces.[3] Biography Dubois obtained her M.Sc. in mechanical engineering at Chalmers

Jean Dubuffet

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called “low art” and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement art

Peter Dunn

Peter Dunn (born November 29, 1977) is an American financial author, radio host, television personality, and speaker. Author of 60 Days to Change: A Daily How-To Guide with Actionable Tips for Improving Your Financial Life and founder of Advanced Planning Solutions (a financial education firm), Dunn was host of Skills Your Dad Never Taught You on NewsTalk 1430 (WXNT Indianapolis). Early life,

Andrew S.C. Ehrenberg

Andrew Ehrenberg (1 May 1926 – 25 August 2010) was a statistician and marketing scientist. For over half a century, he made contributions to data reduction/analysis and presentation, and to understanding buyer behaviour and how advertising works.[citation needed] Biography Andrew Ehrenberg was born in Germany in 1926 into a well-known academic family. His father was Hans

Michael Eisner

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942)[2] is an American businessman[3] and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005.[4][5][6] Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film studio Paramount Pictures from 1976 to 1984,[7] and had brief stints at the major television networks NBC, CBS, and ABC. Eisner’s 21-year stint at Disney saw the revitalization of the

Chester Elton

Chester Elton (born September 22, 1958) is a Canadian-born author of the books The Orange Revolution and The Carrot Principle.[1] Career Elton co-authored The Carrot Principle, and The Best Team Wins.[2] With Adrian Gostick, Elton co-authored books Managing with Carrots (1999); and The Carrot Principle (2010). and contributed to the books All In (2012) and What Motivates Me (2014).[3] [4] Bibliography Managing with Carrots: Using Recognition to Attract and

Tunç Erem

Tunç Erem (born 1938) is a Turkish academic in international marketing and international trade and strategic management. Erem was born in İstanbul in 1938. After finishing Robert College High School in İstanbul, he graduated from the college of Business Administration of Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in 1962 with a BS degree. He received his doctorate from the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences in 1968. Erem was awarded the title of associate professor in 1971, and in

Richard F. Ericson

Richard Ferdinand Ericson (1919–1993) was an American organizational theorist, professor emeritus of management and director of the Interdisciplinary Systems and Cybernetics Project, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Biography Richard Ericson received a bachelor’s with Phi Beta Kappa and a master’s degree at University of Chicago and received his doctorate in economics at Indiana University in 1952. He was a

Hans-Erik Eriksson

Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) is a Swedish computer scientist, organizational theorist, co-founder of Open Training AB, and author, known for his 2000 work on “Business modeling with UML.”[1][2] Life and work After his studies in computer science in the early 1980s, Eriksson started working in industry in the field of in system development and software architecture. In 1999

Agner Krarup Erlang

Agner Krarup Erlang (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering[1] and queueing theory.[2] By the time of his relatively early death at the age of 51, Erlang had created the field of telephone networks analysis. His early work in scrutinizing the use of local, exchange and trunk telephone line usage in

Hamid Etemad

Hamid Etemad (born 1945) is a Canadian organizational theorist, and Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.[1] He is best known for his work on international entrepreneurship and business, specifically the “internationalization of small and medium‐sized enterprises.”[2][3] Biography Etemad received a M.Eng. degree from the University of Tehran as well as MBA, MSc and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism.[1] He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously. Like his contemporary Frederick Winslow Taylor, he is widely acknowledged as a

Armand V. Feigenbaum

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

Tim Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru.[1][2] He became well-known through his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef[3]—that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach.[4] Early life Ferriss grew up in East Hampton, New York. Throughout childhood, Ferriss experienced poor health, sparking an interest in self-improvement.

Harry Anson Finney

Harry Anson Finney (November 19, 1886 – May 8, 1966) was an American accountant, and Professor of accounting at the Northwestern University. He is known as prolific author in the field of accounting.[1] who had written a leading textbook in accounting, entitled “Principles of accounting” (1935).[2] Biography Born in Postville, Iowa to Solon B. and Ellen Bike Finney, Finney obtained

Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.[6] For his work in statistics, he has been described as “a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science”[7] and “the single most important figure in 20th century statistics”.[8] In genetics, his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural

Mary Follett

Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory. She has been called the “Mother of Modern Management”.[2] Instead of

Nicolai J. Foss

Nicolai Juul Foss (born 1964) is a Danish organizational theorist, and scholar of entrepreneurship and strategy. He is currently a professor at the Copenhagen Business School where he has spent most of his career. Foss’ main contribution to organization theory is through the micro-foundational perspective in organization theory and management—examining how individual behaviors aggregate to affect the behavior of larger groups