Henry Metcalfe

Captain Henry Metcalfe (October 29, 1847 – August 17, 1927) was an officer in the United States Army Ordnance Corps, inventor and early organizational theorist, known for his 1873 invention of a detachable magazine for small arms,[1] for his work on modern management accounting,[2][3] the development of the “time card” and his theory on the role of middle

Gerald Midgley

Gerald Robert Midgley (born 1960) is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president (2013-2014) of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is known for his work on “Systemic Intervention;”[1][2] which he defined as “purposeful action by an agent to create change in relation

Danny Miller

Danny Miller (born 1947) is a Canadian economist and Strategy Professor (Rogers-J.A.-Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship) at HEC Montréal. He also teaches at the Chair in Family Enterprise and Strategy at the University of Alberta.[1] According to a statement by HEC, Miller is the fifth-most cited management researcher in the world.[2] Besides teaching, Miller works as a strategy

Merton Miller

Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg OC OQ FRSC (born September 2, 1939) is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968.[1] Early life Mintzberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Jewish parents Myer (a

Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani (18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003)[1] was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Early life and education Modigliani was born on 18 June 1918 in Rome to the Jewish family of a pediatrician father and a

Geoffrey Moore

Geoffrey Moore (born 1946) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant and author,[2] known for his work Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers.[3] Biography Moore received a bachelor’s degree in American literature from Stanford University (1967) and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Washington (1974).[4][5] Moore began his professional life as an English professor

Richard Moran

Richard A. Moran is a San Francisco based speaker, investor, venture capitalist, author[1] and president emeritus of Menlo College. He is known for his series of business books beginning with, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality that established the genre of “Business Bullet Books.” Biography Raised in Rahway, New Jersey,[2] Moran graduated in 1968 from Rahway High School.[3] Moran is General Partner at Tonic

Gareth Morgan

Gareth Morgan (born 22 December 1943) is a British/Canadian organizational theorist, management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He is known as creator of the “organisational metaphor” concept and writer of the 1979 book Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis with Gibson Burrell and the 1986 best-seller Images of Organization.[1] Biography Born in Porthcawl, Wales, Morgan took his grammar school education in Bridgend, Wales

Gerry Morgan

Gerry Morgan (born June 8, 1953) is a Canadian entrepreneur and educator specializing in ICT and creating working private-public partnerships. He has worked within the Canadian schooling system for almost 20 years. He has developed ICT learning resources to support classroom and administrative practices.[1] Educator and Entrepreneur Gerry is currently the Principal of the International Division of Changchun Experimental School in Changchun City,

Silvina Moschini

Silvina Moschini (born 1972) is an Argentine entrepreneur. As a businesswoman, she is the founder of Yandiki, SheWorks!, and Intuic and the president of KMGi Group. As an analyst of Internet trends, she appears on networks including CNN en Español and Nuestra Tele Noticias 24 Horas. Early life and education Moschini was born in Azul, Argentina.[1] She holds a BA in Public Relations Universidad Argentina de la

Moses

Moses[note 1] (/ˈmoʊzɪz, –zɪs/)[2] is considered the most important prophet in Judaism[3][4] and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith,[5][6] the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran,[7] Moses was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the authorship, or “acquisition from heaven”, of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is attributed.[8] According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was

Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad[a] (Arabic: مُحَمَّد; c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE)[b] was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.[c] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.[2][3][4] He is believed to be the Seal of the Prophets within Islam. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the basis of Islamic

Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (/ˈmʊnstərbɜːrɡ/; June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to industrial/organizational (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg experienced immense turmoil with the outbreak of the First World War. Torn between his loyalty to the United States and his

Keith Murnighan

J. Keith Murnighan was an American social scientist and author, born on November 23, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. He died on June 3, 2016.[1] He was the Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he taught from 1996-2016. His areas of expertise included: Leadership, Negotiations, Ethics, Individual

Christa Muth

Christa Muth (born November 24, 1949) is a German systems scientist, management professor and management consultant. She spent most of her life in Switzerland and is notable for emphasizing the importance of the intangible aspects in organizations and in business strategies. She coined the term “Human Systems Engineering” and gave it to a Master of Advanced Studies Program

Guru Nanak

Gurū Nānak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; pronunciation: [gʊɾuː naːnəkᵊ], pronunciation), also referred to as Bābā Nānak (‘father Nānak’),[12] was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi (‘full-moon of Kattak’), i.e. October–November. Nanak is said to have travelled far and wide across Asia teaching people the message of ik

Peter Naudé

Peter Naudé (born 1950s) is a British organisational theorist and Professor of Marketing at the Manchester Business School, known for his work on business networks.[1] Life and work Naudé obtained his Phd in Marketing 1992 at the Manchester Business School. In the 1980s Naude had started his academic career at the University of Cape Town, where he taught at

Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 bestseller Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.[1] Early life Negroponte was born to Dimitrios Negropontis (Greek: Νεγροπόντης), a Greek shipping magnate and

Nobuo Noda

Nobuo Noda (野田 信夫, Noda Nobuo, April 24, 1893 – 1993) was a prominent Japanese business scholar[1] professor of management at the Seikei University and president of the Seikei University in Tokyo,[2] known as one of Japan’s longstanding leaders in the field of management theory,[3] a specialist in productivity matters.[4] Biography Youth, education and early career Noda was born in Nagano, Nagano in 1893.[5] He graduated from Tokyo University in 1921