Rebecca Piekkari

Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari (born Dec. 4, 1967) is a Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of International Business at the Aalto University, and Vice Dean of its Department of Management Studies, known for her work on “international business research.”[1] and on multinational corporations.[2] Life and work Piekkari obtained her MSc in International Business in 1990 at the Helsinki School of

Henry Varnum Poor

Henry Varnum Poor (December 8, 1812 – January 4, 1905) was an American financial analyst and founder of H.V. and H.W. Poor Co, which later evolved into the financial research and analysis bellwether, Standard & Poor’s. Biography Born in East Andover, Massachusetts (now Andover, Maine) to Sylvanus and Mary (Merrill) Poor,[1]: 2  he was the first of his family to attend college,

Michael Porter

Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947)[2] is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited for creating Porter’s

K. Prahalad

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010)[1] was an Indian-American[4] entrepreneur and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.[5] He co-authored “Core Competence of the Corporation”[6] with Gary Hamel; and “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”[7] with Stuart L. Hart, about business opportunity

Derek S. Pugh

Derek Salman Pugh (31 August 1930 – 29 January 2015) was a British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD),[1][2] and particularly the Pugh Matrix, a tool within OD.[3][4] Biography Born in London, Pugh obtained his academical MA in 1953 and his MSc in 1956

Donald R. de Raadt

J. Donald R. de Raadt (born 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus in Informatics and System Science at Luleå University of Technology. Biography J. Donald R. de Raadt studied Economics and Politics at the University of Queensland, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and later studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he first obtained his post-graduate

Navi Radjou

Navi Radjou (born 14 August 1970) is an Indian born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme of frugal innovation. Career Radjou was born in India with French-American dual citizenship.[clarification needed] He earned a diploma in

Ravichandaran

N. Ravichandran was the 4th (regular) director of The Indian Institute of Management Indore. He is an MSc in maths from Annamalai University and holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.[1] He is currently a professor at IIM Ahmedabad in the area of operations management and quantitative techniques. He started the five-year Integrated Management Programme at IIM Indore and increased the batch size of

Jeffrey Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is an academic, author, consultant, and founder and chairman of Marketspace LLC, a strategic advisory practice that works with leading companies to reinvent how they interact with and relate to customers. Marketspace was a unit of Monitor Deloitte, a global strategy services and merchant banking firm, which now operates as an independent professional services firm.

Charles Redding

W. Charles Redding (April 13, 1914 – June 10, 1994) is credited as being the “father” of organizational communication.[1] Redding played a significant role in both the creation and study of the field of Organizational Communication. Redding described communication as “referring to the behaviors of human beings, or the artifacts created by human beings, which result in

Robert Reich

Robert Bernard Reich (/raɪʃ/ RYSHE;[2] born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator.[3] He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton.[4][5] He was also a member of President Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory board.[6] Reich has been the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy

Fred Reichheld

Frederick F. Reichheld (born 1952, Cleveland, US) is an American New York Times best-selling author, speaker and business strategist. He is best known for his research and writing on the loyalty business model and loyalty marketing. He is the creator of the Net Promoter System of management (NPS). Early life and education Reichheld graduated with a B.A. from Harvard College (1974) and an

Reg Revans

Reginald William Revans (14 May 1907 – 8 January 2003) was an academic professor, administrator and management consultant who pioneered the use of Action learning. He was also a long jumper who represented Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam where he finished 32nd in the long jump event. At the first British Empire Games, in 1930, he won the silver medal in both the long jump and triple jump competition.[1][2] Early life

Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26, 1945) is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Rifkin is the author of 23 books about the influence of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His most recent books include The Age of Resilience (2022), The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal

Fritz Roethlisberger

Fritz Jules Roethlisberger (October 29, 1898- May 17, 1974) was a social scientist, management theorist at the Harvard Business School.[1] Biography Roethlisberger earned the BA in engineering from Columbia University in 1921,[2] the BS in engineering administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1922, and the MA in philosophy from Harvard University in 1925.[1] Roethlisberger held the following positions at Harvard Business School:

Georges Romme

Sjoerd Abel Georges Lodewijk Romme (born 1960) is a Dutch organizational theorist and professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Biography Georges Romme received a MSc in economics from Tilburg University and in 1992 a PhD degree in business administration from Maastricht University. Since 2005, he is professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and since 2007 also dean of the

Mike Rother

Mike Rother (born 1958, Michigan, USA) is an American researcher. He introduced the widespread business practices of Value Stream Mapping and Toyota Kata (Improvement Kata + Coaching Kata). He has been affiliated with the Industrial Technology Institute (Ann Arbor), the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Stuttgart), and the Technical University Dortmund. Publications Learning to

Martti Saario

Martti Saario (1906 – 1988) was a Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of Accounting at the Helsinki School of Economics, known for his development of the Finnish expenditure-revenue theory.[1][2] Saario obtained his PhD at the Helsinki School of Economics in 1945 with a thesis on the “Realisointiperiaate ja käyttöomaisuuden poistot tuloslaskennassa” (depreciation of fixed assets and annual income

Kenan Sahin

Kenan Eyüp Şahin, (commonly known as Kenan Sahin) is a Turkish-born American scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder, President and the Chief Technology Officer of TIAX LLC in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is also the founder and CEO of CAMX Power which formerly was a division of TIAX LLC and in May 2014, became a separate company. Early life and

Mohammad Ali Sarlak

Mohammad Ali Sarlak (born March 25, 1970, Iran) is a professor of organizational behavior management at Payame Noor University (PNU), and the former chancellor of this university as the largest public university in Iran.[1] He introduced the concept of the organization’s face for the first time in a multi volume reference book entitled The new faces of organizations in the 21st century.[2] Sarlak was