Chester Elton

Chester Elton (born September 22, 1958) is a Canadian-born author of the books The Orange Revolution and The Carrot Principle.[1] Career Elton co-authored The Carrot Principle, and The Best Team Wins.[2] With Adrian Gostick, Elton co-authored books Managing with Carrots (1999); and The Carrot Principle (2010). and contributed to the books All In (2012) and What Motivates Me (2014).[3] [4] Bibliography Managing with Carrots: Using Recognition to Attract and

Tunç Erem

Tunç Erem (born 1938) is a Turkish academic in international marketing and international trade and strategic management. Erem was born in İstanbul in 1938. After finishing Robert College High School in İstanbul, he graduated from the college of Business Administration of Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in 1962 with a BS degree. He received his doctorate from the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences in 1968. Erem was awarded the title of associate professor in 1971, and in

Richard F. Ericson

Richard Ferdinand Ericson (1919–1993) was an American organizational theorist, professor emeritus of management and director of the Interdisciplinary Systems and Cybernetics Project, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Biography Richard Ericson received a bachelor’s with Phi Beta Kappa and a master’s degree at University of Chicago and received his doctorate in economics at Indiana University in 1952. He was a

Hans-Erik Eriksson

Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) is a Swedish computer scientist, organizational theorist, co-founder of Open Training AB, and author, known for his 2000 work on “Business modeling with UML.”[1][2] Life and work After his studies in computer science in the early 1980s, Eriksson started working in industry in the field of in system development and software architecture. In 1999

Agner Krarup Erlang

Agner Krarup Erlang (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering[1] and queueing theory.[2] By the time of his relatively early death at the age of 51, Erlang had created the field of telephone networks analysis. His early work in scrutinizing the use of local, exchange and trunk telephone line usage in

Hamid Etemad

Hamid Etemad (born 1945) is a Canadian organizational theorist, and Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.[1] He is best known for his work on international entrepreneurship and business, specifically the “internationalization of small and medium‐sized enterprises.”[2][3] Biography Etemad received a M.Eng. degree from the University of Tehran as well as MBA, MSc and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism.[1] He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously. Like his contemporary Frederick Winslow Taylor, he is widely acknowledged as a

Armand V. Feigenbaum

Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (April 6, 1920[1] – November 13, 2014) was an American quality control expert and businessman.[2] He devised the concept of Total Quality Control which inspired Total Quality Management. Biography Feigenbaum, known as “Val”,[3] received a bachelor’s degree in industrial administration from Union College, his master’s degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. He was Director

Tim Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru.[1][2] He became well-known through his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef[3]—that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach.[4] Early life Ferriss grew up in East Hampton, New York. Throughout childhood, Ferriss experienced poor health, sparking an interest in self-improvement.

Harry Anson Finney

Harry Anson Finney (November 19, 1886 – May 8, 1966) was an American accountant, and Professor of accounting at the Northwestern University. He is known as prolific author in the field of accounting.[1] who had written a leading textbook in accounting, entitled “Principles of accounting” (1935).[2] Biography Born in Postville, Iowa to Solon B. and Ellen Bike Finney, Finney obtained

Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.[6] For his work in statistics, he has been described as “a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science”[7] and “the single most important figure in 20th century statistics”.[8] In genetics, his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural

Mary Follett

Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory. She has been called the “Mother of Modern Management”.[2] Instead of

Nicolai J. Foss

Nicolai Juul Foss (born 1964) is a Danish organizational theorist, and scholar of entrepreneurship and strategy. He is currently a professor at the Copenhagen Business School where he has spent most of his career. Foss’ main contribution to organization theory is through the micro-foundational perspective in organization theory and management—examining how individual behaviors aggregate to affect the behavior of larger groups

Edward Freeman

Robert Edward Freeman (born December 18, 1951) is an American philosopher and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia, particularly known for his work on stakeholder theory (1984) and on business ethics. Biography Born in Columbus, Georgia, Freeman received a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Duke University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis in 1978. He taught at the University of Minnesota and the Wharton School, and

Mike L. Fry

Michael L. “Mike” Fry (October 25, 1960 – November 4, 2012) was an American serial entrepreneur, entertainer, trainer and marketing expert. He was the original Happy the Hobo on the children’s television series Happy’s Place, and the creative mind behind and owner of Fancy Fortune Cookies. Entertainer Mike Fry was born in Watseka, Illinois[1] but grew up in the Huntington, Indiana area.[2] He was the state Tae Kwon Do champion

Adrian Furnham

Adrian Frank Furnham (born 3 February 1953) is a South African-born British BPS chartered occupational psychologist and chartered health psychologist. He is currently an adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School and professor at University College London.[1] Throughout his career, he has lectured in the following post-secondary institutions: Pembroke College, Oxford, University of New South Wales, University of West Indies, Hong Kong University Business School, and the Henley Management College.[2] Furnham

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.[1][2] Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half

Henry Gantt

Henry Laurence Gantt (/ɡænt/; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management. He created the Gantt chart in the 1910s. Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and Interstate highway system and continue to be an important tool in project management and program management.

Burleigh B. Gardner

Burleigh Bradford Gardner (December 4, 1902—January 12, 1988) was an American social anthropologist, and Founding Chairman of Social Research Inc. of Chicago, Illinois,[1] known for its pioneering work in the field of consumer motivation research[2] and quantitative marketing research.[3] Biography Dr. Gardner grew up in Falfurrias, Texas, after his family left Galveston following the Galveston Flood in which his

Michael Gerber

Michael E. Gerber (born June 20, 1936)[1] is an American author and founder of Michael E. Gerber Companies, a business skills training company based in Carlsbad, California. Early life Michael E. Gerber was born on June 20, 1936, in Elizabeth, NJ. He was the son of Harry Gerber (a furniture salesman) and Helen Gary Gerber Aaron. With