Alvin Toffler

Alvin Eugene Toffler[1] (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world’s outstanding futurists.[2] Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early

Jean-Marie Toulouse

Jean-Marie Toulouse, CM OQ FRSC (born 1942) is a Canadian academic. He is a Professor and Director of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. In 2004, he was made an Officer (Officier) of the National Order of Quebec. In 1997, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Biographie Ttulaire d’un B. Ph. en psychologie, d’une L. Ps. et d’un

Phil Town

Philip Bradley Town (born 21 September 1948) is an American investor, motivational speaker, and author of two books on financial investment that were New York Times best-sellers. Early life and education Phil Town was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Newport High School in 1966. After four attempts at college, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University

Henry R. Towne

Henry Robinson Towne (August 24, 1844 – October 15, 1924) was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management.[1][2] He donated several millions to philanthropy at his death, in 1924.[3] Biography Towne was born in Philadelphia in 1844 to John Henry and Maria (Tevis) T. Towne.[4] He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862,

John Tregoning

John Tregoning (c. 1845 – c. 1920) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and business manager from Lynn, Massachusetts, known for writing one of the first books on factory operations in 1891.[1][2] and as early systematizer of management.[3][4] Biography Tregoning was educated as mechanical engineer and had started his career in industry in the 1860s. In the

Jack Trout

John Francis “Jack” Trout (January 31, 1935 – June 4, 2017) was an American advertising executive and an owner of Trout & Partners, a consulting firm. He was the founder and pioneer of positioning theory and also marketing warfare theory. Career Trout started his business career in the advertising department of General Electric. From there he went on to become a divisional advertising manager at

Josiah Tucker

Josiah Tucker (also Josias) (December 1713 – 4 November 1799), also known as Dean Tucker, was a Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer. He was concerned in his works with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American independence. He became Dean of Gloucester. Life He was born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire; his father inherited a small estate near Aberystwyth, and sent his son

Bruce Tuckman

Bruce Wayne Tuckman (November 24, 1938 – March 13, 2016) was an American Psychological Researcher who carried out his research into the theory of group dynamics.[1] In 1965, he published a theory known as “Tuckman’s stages of group development”. According to his theory, there are four phases of group development, they are: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing. In 1977,

Dominique Turpin

Dominique V. Turpin (born 12 January 1957, in Tours), a marketing professor at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) with research interests in brand management, marketing strategy and communications. He spent his childhood and adolescence in France and obtained his baccalaureate of Sciences with distinction in 1976. He studied at ESSCA from 1976 to 1980 and as

Werner Ulrich

Werner Ulrich (born 1948, Berne, Switzerland) is a Swiss social scientist and practical philosopher, and a former professor of the theory and practice of social planning at the University of Fribourg. He is known as one of the originators of critical systems thinking (CST) and in particular for the development of critical systems heuristics.[1][2] Life and work Ulrich received doctoral degrees in Economics and Social Sciences from the University

Lyndall Urwick

Lyndall Fownes Urwick MC (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration.[1][2] He wrote an influential book called The Elements of Business Administration, published in 1943.[3] With Luther Gulick, he founded the academic journal Administrative Science Quarterly.[4] Biography Youth

Peter Vaill

Peter Brown Vaill (November 5, 1936 – March 24, 2020) was an organizational change theorist who published widely in the fields of organizational behavior, organization development (O.D.), and leadership studies, including the intersection of spirituality and leadership.[1][2] Life Vaill was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on November 5, 1936, to Stanley and Elizabeth (Brown) Vaill. Peter’s father, who worked for

Andrew H. Van de Ven

Andrew H. Van de Ven (1945 – April 30, 2022) was an American organization scholar, and Professor Emeritus in the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. Biography Andrew H. Van de Ven received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Business Administration from St. Norbert College. Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972. Van de Ven taught at Kent

Jan Vanthienen

Jan Vanthienen (born 1956) is a Belgian Information systems scientist and Professor of Information systems engineering at Leuven University (KU Leuven), known for his contributions to Business Process Modeling, Process mining and Business Engineering.[1] Biography Vanthienen received MA in Applied Economics and computer science at the Leuven University in 1979, and a PhD in Applied Economics at the Department of Applied Economics, Leuven University, in 1986.[2] He

Hal Varian

Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. Early life Hal Varian was born on March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio. He received his B.S. from MIT in economics

Antoaneta Vassileva

Antoaneta Vassileva (in Bulgarian: Антоанета Василева; born 1960) is a Bulgarian economist and Professor of Global Economics and International Economic Relations at the International Economic Relations and Business Department at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE). She was Dean of the International Economics and Politics Faculty of the UNWE from 2011 until 2014. Biography Education Vassileva graduated from

Henrik Virkkunen

Johan Henrik Virkkunen (30 June 1917 – 7 March 1963) was a Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of Accounting at the Helsinki School of Economics, whose 1954 textbook Laskentatoimijohdon apuna (Accounting as a Tool of Management) influenced Finnish accountancy thinking for decades.[1][2] Virkkunen obtained his Ph.D. at the Helsinki School of Economics with the thesis, entitled Teollisuuden laskentatoimi (Industrial accountancy). He was

Henk Volberda

Henk W. Volberda (born 1964) is a Dutch organizational theorist, management consultant, and Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. He is known for his contributions in the field of strategic renewal, coevolution and new organizational forms.[1] Biography Born in Sneek, Volberda received his MA in Business Administration at the University of Groningen in 1987, and his

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe) and historian. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/;[5][6][7] also US: /vɔːl-/;[8][9] French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), he was famous for his wit, in addition to his criticism of Christianity—especially of the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Voltaire

Victor Vroom

Victor Harold Vroom (born August 9, 1932,[1] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a business school professor at the Yale School of Management. He holds a PhD from University of Michigan and an MS and BS from McGill University. Work Vroom’s primary research was on the expectancy theory of motivation, which attempts to explain why individuals choose to follow certain courses of action and prefer certain goals or outcomes over others