David Aaker

David Allen Aaker (born February 11, 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.[2] He serves as Vice Chairman of the San Francisco-based growth consulting company Prophet.[3] Biography Aaker received his SB in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and then his MA in Statistics

Wil van der Aalst

Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist and full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation.[1] He is also known for his work on workflow patterns. Biography Born in Eersel, Netherlands, van der Aalst received an

James Abegglen

James Christian Abegglen (1926–2007) was an American-born Japanese business theorist and professor in management and economics at Sophia University. He was one of the founders of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 1963, and the first representative director of its Tokyo branch, founded in 1966. Biography Abegglen was born in Michigan. After graduation from the University of Chicago, he served in the Third Marine Division to

Bodo Abel

Bodo Abel (* 18.January 1948) is a German Professor at the University of Hamburg in Business Administration, focused on“International Marketing”. He was till 2013 the program director of the international master program „MiBA – Master of International Business Administration“ at the University of Hamburg and at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (FINEC), Russia. His teaching and

Russell L. Ackoff

Russell Lincoln Ackoff (February 12, 1919 – October 29, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ackoff was a pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science. Biography Russell L. Ackoff was born on February 12, 1919, in Philadelphia to Jack and Fannie (Weitz) Ackoff.[1][2] He

John Adair

John Eric[1] Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership.[2] Life Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul’s School before undertaking his national service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in

Karol Adamiecki

Karol Adamiecki (Dąbrowa Górnicza, 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish engineer, management researcher, economist, and professor. Life Ulica Mokotowska 51/53, Warsaw, site of Adamiecki’s activities in 1927-33. Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Europe. He began his research at the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia (1884–90). In 1891 he graduated

Ichak Adizes

Ichak Kalderon Adizes (/iːtsˈxɑːk əˈdiːzɪs/ uh-DEE-ziss[2]) is a Yugoslav American business consultant and former tenured professor.[3] Early life Ichak Adizes was born in North Macedonia.[4] As a Jewish child during World War II, he hid in Albania as a Muslim for protection. The story was documented in a film entitled I Want To Remember, He Wants To Forget.[5] In 1948, Adizes moved with his family

Niclas Adler

Bo Niclas Adler (born 30 April 1971) is a Swedish entrepreneur, scientist, founder and CEO for Synthesis Group. As an entrepreneur he has built several biopharma and medical technology companies as well as both VC and PE funds dedicated to life-sciences. As a management researcher he is known for his work on “Managing complex product

Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d’Agoult

Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d’Agoult de Bonneval (1747 in Grenoble– 1824 in Paris) was a French Roman Catholic bishop, and after his resignation of his diocese a political writer. His eldest brother, François-Edouard-Augustin-Venceslas-Hippolyte, Marquis d’Agoult, was Maréchal-de-Camp in the royal army. Another brother, Antoine-Jean, Vicomte d’Agoult, held the rank of Mestre-de-camp, and was a Commander in the Order

Yoji Akao

Yoji Akao (赤尾 洋二, Akao Yōji, 1928 – October 24, 2016) was a Japanese planning specialist recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri (a strategic planning methodology). With the late Shigeru Mizuno, he developed Quality Function Deployment (a group decision making technique). Akao and Mizuno also co-founded the Quality Function Deployment Institute: a non-profit organization dedicated to dissemination and advancement of QFD.[1] Akao received a Ph.D.

Ali Akdemir

Ali Akdemir (born June 3, 1963 in Sivas) is a Turkish University Professor for Management and former Rector of the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Gallipoli).[1] He is the former Dean of the Biga Faculty Of Economics and Administrative Sciences (BIIBF) at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Gallipoli). His main research area is on management and leadership issues, has some several articles and

Mark Albion

Mark Albion, born on April 3, 1951, is an American social entrepreneur, business theorist and activist, and author of values-based business literature.[1] Contents   1 Biography 2 Awards and recognition 3 Work 3.1 Net Impact 3.2 Speeches 3.3 United Nations 3.4 The Good Life Parable 3.5 Writings 4 Selected publications 5 References 6 External links Biography Albion received his post-secondary degrees from Harvard University, including a BA

Howard E. Aldrich

Howard E. Aldrich (born 1943) is an American sociologist who is Kenan Professor of Sociology and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Faculty Research Associate at the Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.[3] He is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge

Leon P. Alford

Leon Pratt Alford (Jan. 3, 1877 – Feb. 2, 1942) was an American mechanical engineer, organizational theorist, and administrator for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[1][2] known for his seminal work in the field of industrial management.[3] Biography Born in Simsbury, Connecticut, Alford graduated from the High School of Plainville, Connecticut, and in 1896 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[4] After ten years in the

Tim Ambler

Tim Ambler (born 1937) is a British organizational theorist, author and academic on the field of Marketing effectiveness.[1] Ambler featured on Marketing’s list of the 100 most powerful figures in the industry.[2] He is cited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of the top 50 marketing experts in the world [3] Life and career Ambler was educated at

Igor Ansoff

Harry Igor Ansoff (Russian: Игорь Ансов, 12 December 1918– 14 July 2002) was a Russian American applied mathematician and business manager.[1] He is known as one of the fathers of strategic management. Biography Early life Igor Ansoff was born in Vladivostok, Russia, on December 12, 1918.[2] His father was an American-born Russian from Evansville, Indiana and his mother was a Russian from Moscow. At the time of

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/; Italian: Tommaso d’Aquino, lit. ‘Thomas of Aquino’; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian[9] Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily, Italy; he is known within the tradition as the Doctor Angelicus, and the Doctor Communis.[a] In 1999, John Paul II added a new title to these traditional ones: Doctor Humanitatis.[10] Thomas was a

Ingeman Arbnor

Ingeman Arbnor (born January 25, 1949) is a Swedish economist, Professor at the Lund University, Lund, known for his international bestseller Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge written with Björn Bjerke. Biography Ingeman Arbnor was born in Sweden in 1949, and studied Economics at the Lund University. A few years, later Arbnor was appointed to his first professorial position at the Lund University. Björn Bjerke supervised the final phase

Chris Argyris

Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013[1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. 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 Argyris was born a twin—along with Thomas S. Argyris (1923–2001)[2]—into a family of Greek immigrants to the