Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Jamshid Gharajedaghi (Persian: جمشید قراچه‌داغی, born c. 1940) is an Iranian-American organizational theorist, management consultant, and Adjunct Professor of Systems thinking at Villanova University. He is known for his work of systems thinking, managing complexity, and business architecture.[1][2] While in Iran, Gharajedaghi headed Industrial Management Institute (IMI)[3] and was a member of board of trustees for Azad University, Iran from 1976 to 1979. He has two

Sumantra Ghoshal

Sumantra Ghoshal (26 September 1948 – 3 March 2004) was an Indian scholar and educator.[1] He served as a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School, and was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. His Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution,[2] co-authored with Christopher A. Bartlett, has been listed in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most

John P. van Gigch

John Peter van Gigch (1930 – August 29, 2006 in Sebastopol, California) was an American organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus in System Management at the California State University.[1] Life and work Born in Argentina in 1930, Van Gigch transferred in the 1960s from a university to the States.[2] In 1968 he received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University for his dissertation The Impact of

Frank Bunker Gilbreth

Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen. Both he and his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth were industrial engineers and efficiency

Frank Gilbreth -Time and motion study

A time and motion study (or time-motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the Time Study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the Motion Study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen). It is a major part of scientific management (Taylorism). After its first introduction, time study developed in the direction

Seth Godin

Seth W. Godin is an American author and former dot com business executive. Background After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City.[4] He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne (named in jest after the fictional Yoyodyne in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru.[1][2] He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and other TOC derived tools. He was the author of several business novels and non-fiction works, mainly on the application of the theory of

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith (born March 20, 1949) is an American executive leadership coach and author.[1][2] Early life and education Goldsmith was born in Valley Station, Kentucky, and received a degree in mathematical economics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1970; where he was also a brother of the Theta Xi Kappa Chapter Fraternity.[3][4] He then earned an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley

Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half, a bestseller in many countries, and is in print worldwide in 40 languages.[1] Apart

Vytautas Andrius Graiciunas

Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas (August 17, 1898 in Chicago – January 9, 1952 in Olzheras, Siberia)[1] was a Lithuanian American management theorist, management consultant, and engineer,[2][3] and was a known expert in his field. Born to Lithuanian immigrants, he studied at the University of Chicago. During World War I he served in France. After coming back in 1919, he became interested in management and continued his studies at the Illinois Institute

Lynda Gratton

Lynda Gratton (born February 1955) a British organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and the founder of HSM Advisory, known for her work on organisational behaviour. Biography Born in Liverpool, England, the oldest of four children,[1] Gratton took a degree in psychology degree followed by a PhD at Liverpool University.[2] After graduation, Gratton started her career at British Airways, where she was Chief Psychologist. In 1982 she moved to

Jackson Grayson

C. Jackson “Jack” Grayson, Jr. (October 8, 1923 – May 4, 2017) was the chairman of APQC, dean of two business schools, head of the U.S. Price Commission (1971), a farmer, newspaper reporter and FBI agent. In 1977 he founded APQC as a private sector, non-profit organization. C. Jackson Grayson was the U.S. chairman of

Danny Greefhorst

Danny Greefhorst (born 31 December 1972) is a Dutch enterprise architect and consultant at ArchiXL, known for his work in the field of enterprise architecture.[1][2] Biography Greefhorst obtained his master in computer science at Utrecht University in 1995 with the master thesis “”A Simulation Environment for Ariadne.”[3] Furthermore, he became IBM Certified Senior IT Architect in 2004. He is TOGAF

Miriam Green

Miriam Green Ellis was an agricultural journalist best known for her 25-year career as western editor of the Family Herald and Weekly Star. Along with her mentor Cora Hind, she was a pioneering Western woman journalist at a time when the field was dominated by men.[1] Her writing documented the early 20th century experience of the Canadian West, from

James Bray Griffith

James Bray Griffith (1871 – Jan 1, 1937[1]) was an American business theorist, and head of Department of Commerce, Accountancy, and Business Administration at the American School of Correspondence in Chicago, known as early systematizer of management.[2][3][4] Biography Born in Maryland to Thomas Francis Griffith and Euphemia Hill, Griffith came into prominence in the 1900s. Early 1900s had joined

William H. Gruber

William H. Gruber (born march 6th, 1935) is an American organizational theorist, former professor at MIT, Boston College and Northeastern University, consultant and author, known for his work in the field of computer technology in business in the 1980s.[1][2] Life and work Gruber obtained his BS from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956, and his PhD in economics

Erich Gutenberg

Erich Gutenberg (13 de diciembre de 1897 en Herford; † 22 de mayo de 1984 en Colonia) fue un economista alemán y es considerado el fundador de la moderna administración de empresas en Alemania (Betriebswirtschaftslehre o BWL, por sus siglas en alemán) después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vida Gutenberg era hijo de un fabricante. Asistió al Friedrichs-Gymnasium de Herford, un

Stephan H. Haeckel

Stephan H. (Steve) Haeckel (born May 22, 1936) is an American management theorist and former director of Strategic Studies at IBM’s Advanced Business Institute, who developed the idea of the sense-and-respond organization[1] as an adaptive enterprise.[2][3] Life and work Haeckel received a BS in engineering and an MBA from the Washington University in St. Louis. At IBM he has been a marketing

Stephen G. Haines

Stephen G. Haines (1945–2012) was an American organizational theorist, management consultant, author of books on management and systems thinking.[1] Biography Stephen Haines earned a B.S. in Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. He also worked for a doctorate in Management and Educational Psychology from Temple University, but did not complete the dissertation He received a Master of Science in Administration in Organization Development under Richard F. Ericson and Jerry

Noel Frederick Hall

Sir Noel Frederick Hall (23 December 1902 – 29 March 1983)[1] was an economist and academic who was one of Britain’s earliest post-war specialists in business theory and education. He was Professor of Political Economy at University College London, co-founder of what is now Henley Business School and Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Biographical sketch Noel Hall was born in