Rolf Solli

Rolf Solli (born 1953) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor of Management at the University of Borås. During 2003-2012 he was Director and Professor of Management Studies at GRI, Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University, Sweden.[1] His research focuses on processes of management, leadership and accounting mainly in the context of

Thomas J. Stanley

Thomas J. Stanley (1944 – February 28, 2015)[1] was an American writer and business theorist. He was the author and co-author of several award-winning books on America’s wealthy, including the New York Times’ best sellers The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind. He served as chief advisor to Data Points, a company founded based on his research and data.[2] He

Andy Stefanovich

Andy Stefanovich (born 1966) is an American speaker, bestselling author, and business consultant.[1][2] A native of Detroit, Michigan, Stefanovich is currently the founding partner of a consulting firm called Life. Previously, he was a partner with Richmond, Virginia-based venture capital firm New Richmond Ventures LLC.[3][4] Before that, Stefanovich was “chief curator and provocateur” at Prophet, a global business and creative consulting firm headquartered

Victor Hermann Stempf

Victor Hermann Stempf (April 28, 1893 – April 18, 1946) was an American accountant and administrator, known as the 7th inductee into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1952.[1][2] Life and work Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Stempf obtained his BA in economics in 1915 at from St. Louis University, and obtained his license as Certified Public Accountant in

Joel Stern

Joel M. Stern was chairman and chief executive officer of Stern Value Management, formerly Stern Stewart & Co, and the creator and developer of economic value added. He was a recognised authority on financial economics, corporate performance measurement, corporate valuation and incentive compensation and was a pioneer and leading advocate of the concept of shareholder value.[1] He was also active in academia,

Rosemary Stewart

Rosemary Stewart (20 December 1924 – 15 June 2015)[1] was a British researcher and writer on business management and healthcare management. Stewart was born in London but the family later moved to Pulborough, West Sussex. Most of her schooling was in Saskatoon, Canada, where her mother had relatives. She graduated in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,

Antonio Strati

Antonio Strati (born 1949) is an Italian organizational theorist, artist[1] and Professor at the University of Trento, particularly known for his work on “Organization and aesthetics”.[2][3] Biography Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, Strati attended secondary education in Florence. He received his BA in Sociology in 1974 from the University of Trento. In 1982 he received his PhD in Organization Studies in

Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton (born 1954 in Chicago) is a professor of management science at the Stanford University School of Engineering and a researcher in the field of evidence-based management. He is a New York Times best-selling author.[1] Sutton received a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan in 1984. He has been on the Stanford University faculty since 1983. He has also taught at the Haas School of

A. Swanson

Gale Alden (G.A.) Swanson (Jan 12, 1939 – July 3, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Accounting at Tennessee Technological University, known for his accounting theories based on James Grier Miller’s general living systems theory.[1] Early life Gale Alden Swanson was born in Lemmon, South Dakota, on January 12, 1939, to Freda (née Wolff) and George H.A. Swanson.[1] He received

Richard A. Swanson

Richard A. Swanson (born 1942) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler (UTT), known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development. Biography Swanson was born in 1942. He received a B.A. at The College of New Jersey in

William R. Synnott

William R. (Bill) Synnott (December 29, 1929 – November 13, 2010) was an American organizational theorist, Vice President of Bank of Boston, author, consultant and lecturer, known for his work in the field of computer technology in business in the 1980s.[1][2] Biography Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, to William and Marie (Labrie) Synnott in 1929, Synnott

Genichi Taguchi

Genichi Taguchi (田口 玄一, Taguchi Gen’ichi, January 1, 1924 – June 2, 2012) was an engineer and statistician.[1] From the 1950s on, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians,[2][3] but others have accepted many of the concepts introduced by him as valid extensions to the body of knowledge. Biography

Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott CM (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute.[2] Career Tapscott has authored or co-authored sixteen books on the application

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency.[1] He was one of the first management consultants.[2] In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The Principles of Scientific Management which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management

Sridhar Tayur

Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker.[1][2] He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of SmartOps Corporation [3][4] and OrganJet Corporation.[5][6] Tayur is known as an “academic capitalist,”[7] recognized for his contribution to Inventory Theory,[8] Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, Operations Strategy,[9] Healthcare Management,

David Teece

David John Teece CNZM (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital[1] at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Teece is also the executive chairman and cofounder of Berkeley Research Group, an expert

Vern Terpstra

Vern Terpstra (August 20, 1927 – November 6, 2013) was Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.[1] He was a fellow of the Academy of International Business.[2][3] Biography Early life and education PHD, University Of Michigan, 1965 MBA, University Of Michigan, 1951 BBA, University Of Michigan, 1950 Career Professor Terpstra received his B.BA, M.BA,

Jacques Thomassen

Jacques J.A. Thomassen (born 23 September 1945) is a Dutch organizational theorist, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, known for his work on the theory of political and policy representation.[1][2][3] Biography Born in Diessen, Thomassen obtained his MA in Sociology in 1968 at

Bertrand Thompson

Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1882 – 1969) was an American business academic, chemist, business consultant and Unitarian minister. He was the first African-American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, known for his work on scientific management.[1] Thompson was the brother of Black newspaperman Noah Davis Thompson whose wife was Eloise Bibb Thompson. Thompson was also the uncle of Anita Thompson

Thomas Thorburn

Thomas William Thorburn (April 13, 1913 – March 13, 2003) was a Swedish economist, and Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics, known from his work on the “Supply and demand of water transport” (1960),[1] and the “Cost-benefit analysis in language planning” (1971).[2] Born in Uddevalla, Thorburn obtained his PhD in 1960 at the Stockholm School