Jason Saul

Jason Saul is an American author, entrepreneur, and educator, best known as an expert on measuring social impact and benchmarking. He is the founder and CEO of Mission Measurement, a consulting firm that advises corporations, governments, and nonprofit agencies on their social impact.[1] Saul was also the founder of the Center For What Works, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that focused on benchmarking

August-Wilhelm Scheer

August-Wilhelm Scheer (born July 27, 1941) is a German Professor of business administration and business information at Saarland University,[1] and founder and director of IDS Scheer AG, a major IT service and software company. He is known for the development of the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) concept. Biography In 1972 Scheer received a PhD from University of Hamburg with the thesis “Kosten- und kapazitätsorientierte Ersatzpolitik bei stochastisch ausfallenden Produktionsanlagen”. In 1974

Edgar Schein

Edgar Henry Schein (March 5, 1928 – January 26, 2023)[1] was a Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist who was professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He founded the discipline of organizational behavior,[2] and made notable contributions in the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture.[3] He was the son of former University of

Eugen Schmalenbach

Eugen Schmalenbach (20 August 1873 – 20 February 1955) was a German academic and economist. He was born in Halver, and attended the Leipzig College of Commerce starting in 1898. That college later became part of Leipzig University, only to emerge again as the Handelshochschule Leipzig. Schmalenbach is best known as a professor at the University of Cologne, and as a contributor

Hein Schreuder

Hein Schreuder (24 December 1951 – 28 May 2023) was a Dutch economist and business executive, executive vice-president corporate strategy & acquisitions at DSM and professor at the University of Maastricht,[1] especially known for his work on “Economic approaches to organizations” with Sytse Douma[2][3] and for his role in the (second) transformation of DSM.[4] Biography Born in Jakarta, Schreuder graduated in Business Economics in

David Meerman Scott

David Meerman Scott is an American online marketing strategist and author of several books on marketing, including The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Education and career Scott graduated from Kenyon College in 1983 with a BA in economics. After early jobs as a clerk on several Wall Street bond trading desks, he worked in the online news and

Walter Dill Scott

Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955)[1] was one of the first applied psychologists. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising. Early life Scott was born in Cooksville, Illinois near the town of Normal, Illinois. He lived on a farm until the age of 19 when he entered Illinois State Normal University.

Esbjörn Segelod

Esbjörn Segelod (born 1951) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor in Business Administration at the Mälardalen University College, School of Business Society and Engineering. He is best known for his work on “knowledge in the software development process”[1] and “software innovativeness”[2] Life and work Segelod obtained his PhD at the University of Gothenburg in 1986 with the thesis,

Peter Senge

Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as the author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990, rev. 2006).

Dorian Shainin

Dorian Shainin (September 26, 1914 – January 7, 2000) was an American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, author, and college professor most notable for his contributions in the fields of industrial problem solving, product reliability, and quality engineering, particularly the creation and development of the “Red X” concept.[1] Shainin (pronounced SHAY-nin), founder of the technical-problem-solving company

Stanley J. Shapiro

Stanley Jack Shapiro (born 1934) is Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Simon Fraser University. He has served as dean of McGill University’s School of Management and dean of Business Administration for Simon Fraser University. Career After earning his PhD., Shapiro travelled to Montreal to work for private industries. While there, he was approached by McGill University and eventually joined

Seena Sharp

Seena Sharp, author of Competitive Intelligence Advantage, is a recognized leader[citation needed] in Competitive Intelligence. She founded one of the first competitive intelligence company, Sharp Market Intelligence, in the US in 1979, in Los Angeles, a company that serves clients across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Seena had a successful corporate career in New York City, where she earned her master’s degree in mathematics. Her research,

Oliver Sheldon

Oliver Sheldon (1894–1951) was a director of the Rowntree’s in York, England. He wrote on principles of public and business administration in the 1920s. Life Oliver Sheldon was born on 13 July 1894.[1] He was educated at King’s College School and Merton College, Oxford.[1] In World War I he served as an officer in the Royal Engineers, and was mentioned in despatches.[1] He joined Rowntree’s in 1919 as Personal Assistant

Walter A. Shewhart

Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like “shoe-heart”; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle. W. Edwards Deming said of him: As a statistician, he was, like so many of the rest of us, self-taught, on a good background

Shigeo Shingo

Shigeo Shingo (新郷 重夫, Shingō Shigeo, 1909–1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer who was considered as the world’s leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System. Life and work After having worked as a technician specializing in fusions at the Taiwanese railways in Taipei, at the end of the World War II, in 1945, he started to work at the

Ibrahim Sirkeci

İbrahim Sirkeci (born 1972, Izmir, Turkey) is a British Turkish social scientist, currently Head of Enterprise Subject Group at Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester,[1] UK. He served as a Professor at various British universities including his 16 years long service at the European Business School London, Regent’s University London,[2] and was the Director of Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies.[3] Biography Sirkeci received his

Adrian Slywotzky

Adrian J. Slywotzky (born 1951 in New York City) is an American consultant of Ukrainian origin and the author of several books on economic theory and management. Biography Slywotzky was born in the family of Ukrainian immigrants from the Ivano-Frankivs’k region of Ukraine. After getting his undergraduate degree at Harvard, Slywotzky also received a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business

Linda Smircich

Linda Smircich (born 1948) is a Professor of Management in the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches Organizational Alternative Paradigms.[1] She is part of the critical management studies approach field and a critical researcher in organizational culture and gender.[2] Biography Linda Smircich has a B.S. from State University of New York at Oswego, M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University.[1] She was previously

Ivan Snehota

Ivan Snehota (1946-2022)[1] was an Italian organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano, known for his work in the field of business networks with Håkan Håkansson and others.[2][3] Biography Snehota obtained his PhD in Business Administration at the University of Uppsala in 1990 with the thesis, entitled “Notes on a Theory of

Henk G. Sol

Henk Gerard Sol (born 11 August 1951 in Borger, Netherlands) is a Dutch organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor[1] of Business Engineering and ICT at Groningen University. His research focuses on the development of services enabled by ICT, management information systems, decision enhancement and telematics.[2] Biography Sol was born in 1951 near Groningen. In 1974 he received an M.A. in Econometrics, Operations Research and Information Systems from the University of Groningen. In