Brian Halligan

Brian Halligan is an American executive and author.[1] He is the co-founder and executive chairman of HubSpot, a CRM platform for scaling companies[2] based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also a senior lecturer at MIT. Halligan uses the term “inbound marketing” to describe the type of marketing he advocates.[3] He has co-authored two books on marketing: Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using

Gary Hamel

Gary P. Hamel (born 1954) is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago. Biography Hamel graduated from Andrews University in 1975, and from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1990.[2] Hamel has worked as a visiting professor of international business at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business

Michael Hammer

Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – Sept 3, 2008) was a Jewish-American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).[1] Biography Early life and education Hammer, the child of Holocaust survivors, grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. He earned BS, MS,

Charles Handy

Charles Brian Handy CBE (born 25 July 1932) is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the “portfolio career” and the “Shamrock Organization” (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the “Shamrock”). He has been rated among the Thinkers 50, a

Paul Harmon

Paul Harmon (born 1942) is an American management consultant, author and analyst, known for his work in the field of Expert systems in the 1980s,[1][2] and more recently on Business process management (BPM).[3][4] Biography Harmon got his HS degree from Shortridge High School in 1960, and received a BA in biology from Earlham College in 1965. In 1968-69 he studied Psychology and Education at the Columbia University in the City

Charter Harrison

George Charter Harrison (1881  – 1959[1]) was an Anglo-American management consultant and cost account pioneer,[2] known for designing one of the earliest known complete standard cost systems.[3][4] Biography G. Charter Harrison was born and educated in England and passed eighth in order of merit in the Anal examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Sven A. Haugland

Sven A. Haugland (born 4 February 1959) is a Norwegian organizational theorist and Professor of industrial marketing and strategy at the Norwegian School of Economics, known for his work on marketing in the service industry,[1] and measuring Strategic alliance performance.[2] Life and work Haugland obtained his BA in Business Administration in 1982 at the Norwegian School of Economics, where in 1986 he also obtained his

David L. Hawk

David L. Hawk (born c. 1948) is an American management theorist, architect, and systems scientist, specializing in climate change as environmental deterioration.[1] From 1981 to 2010 he was professor of management in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and professor of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at NJIT.[2] Biography Hawk received a B.Arch. in engineering from Iowa State

Igor Hawryszkiewycz

Igor Titus Hawryszkiewycz (born c. 1948) is an American computer scientist, organizational theorist, and Professor at the School of Systems, Management and Leadership of the University of Technology, Sydney, known for his work in the field of database systems,[1] systems analysis,[2] and knowledge management.[3] Biography Hawryszkiewycz obtained his PhD in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973[4] with the thesis, entitled

Robert Heller

Robert Heller (10 June 1932 – 28 August 2012) was a British management journalist, management consultant, author of a series of management books, and the founding editor of Management Today. Biography Born in London, Heller attended Christ’s Hospital in the Sussex countryside, served in the Royal Army Service Corps, and then attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a

Frederick Herzberg

Frederick Irving Herzberg (April 18, 1923 – January 19, 2000[1]) was an American psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management.[2][3] He is most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory. His 1968 publication “One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?” had sold 1.2 million reprints by 1987 and was the most requested article

Steen Hildebrandt

Steen Hildebrandt (born in 1944) is a Danish academic and author on business, organizational theory and management. He is Professor Emeritus of Management Studies at Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus and an associated professor at Copenhagen Business School.[1][2] Other pursuits In 2004 he founded the management consultancy firm Hildebrandt & Brandi in collaboration with Søren Brandi. He was chairman of Sankt Lukas Stiftelsen in 2007–2008.[3]

Charles DeLano Hine

Charles DeLano Hine (March 15, 1867 – February 13, 1927) was an American civil engineer, lawyer, railway official, and Colonel in the United States Army. He receives academic credit for studying organizations as a separate field, rather than a “smaller sister of sociology.”.[1][2][3][4] Early and family life Born in Vienna, Virginia to former Union veteran Capt. Orrin E.

Geert Hofstede

Gerard Hendrik (Geert) Hofstede (2 October 1928 – 12 February 2020) was a Dutch social psychologist, IBM employee, and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at Maastricht University in the Netherlands,[1] well known for his pioneering research on cross-cultural groups and organizations.[2] He is best known for developing one of the earliest and most popular frameworks for measuring cultural dimensions in a global perspective.

Kenneth Hopper

Kenneth Hopper (May 1926 – 20 May 2019) was a Scottish academic. His studies of the origins of America’s factory management culture and its influence on Japanese factory management and elsewhere after World War II have received international recognition. He was the author of numerous academic and professional articles on manufacturing and management. Biographical Background

Yasheng Huang

Yasheng Huang (Chinese: 黄亚生) is an American professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India. He had previous appointments at the University of Michigan and Harvard Business School. Huang is the author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, a history of economic reforms in China. Early life and education Dr.

Albert S Humphrey

Albert S. Humphrey (2 June 1926 – 31 October 2005) was an American business and management consultant who specialized in organizational management and cultural change. Initially earning degrees in chemical engineering in Illinois, he eventually moved to London. Education Albert Humphrey was educated at the University of Illinois, where he graduated with a B.Sc. in chemical engineering. After this he gained

Shelby D. Hunt

Shelby D. Hunt (1939-2022) was an American organizational theorist, the Jerry S. Rawls and P. W. Horn Professor of Marketing at the Texas Tech University, and a highly cited marketing researcher.[1][2][3] He is noted for his contributions to competition theory and the resource-advantage view. Education and career Hunt originally studied mechanical engineering at the University of Ohio, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in

Walter Hunziker

Walter Hunziker (1899–1974) was a Swiss professor who founded the Tourism Research Institute at the University of St. Gallen, co-developed the scientific study of tourism, developed the travel savings fund concept, co-founded the Association Internationale d’Experts Scientifiques du Tourisme (AIEST) and the Institut International de Glion. He was a director of the Swiss Tourism Federation, member of Swiss

Masaaki Imai

Masaaki Imai (今井 正明, Imai Masaaki), 1930–⁠2023, was a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant known for his work on quality management, specifically on kaizen. Known as the father of Continuous Improvement (CI), Masaaki Imai has been a pioneer and leader in spreading the kaizen philosophy all over the world.[1][2][3] Life & Work In 1986, Imai published “Kaizen, The Key to Japan’s Competitive