Philip Kotler

Philip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (1962–2018). He is known for popularizing the definition of marketing mix. He is the author of over 80 books, including Marketing Management, Principles of Marketing, Kotler on Marketing, Marketing Insights from A to Z, Marketing

John Kotter

John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School,[1] an author,[2] and the founder of Kotter International, a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston.[3] He is a thought leader in business, leadership, and change.[4] Career In 2008, he co-founded Kotter International with two others, where he currently serves as Chairman.[5] The business consultancy firm applies Kotter’s research

Joe Kutchera

Joe Kutchera (born 1970) is an American author, columnist and marketing executive. While working at Grupo Expansion in Mexico City (acquired by Time Inc. in 2005), his team launched CNN Expansion, the leading Spanish-language business news site in North America (now Expansion.mx). Subsequently, Kutchera worked at Flipboard as its Head of LatAm Content + Publishers. Currently, he is the Founder

Vladimir Kvint

Vladimir L’vovich Kvint (Russian: Владимир Львович Квинт) is a Russian-American economist and strategist, and President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets. Since 2007, he has been the Chair of the Department of Economic and Financial Strategy at the Moscow School of Economics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.[1] Kvint is also the Head of the Center for Strategic Studies

John Christian Langli

John Christian Langli (born 1961) is a Norwegian economist, and Professor at the BI Norwegian Business School. Langli graduated from the BI Norwegian Business School with a siviløkonom degree in 1988, and took the dr.oecon. degree at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1993. He was a research fellow at these respective institutions from 1988 to 1992 and 1992 to 1994. He was hired

Jean-Claude Larréché

Jean-Claude “JC” Larreche (born 3 July 1947) is Emeritus Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, where he held the Alfred H. Heineken Chair of Marketing from 1993 to 2018.[1] His academic and business activities are focused on building the fundamental capabilities required to create corporate value, especially through marketing excellence, customer focus, and value-capture selling. He is Founder

Kyoung Jun Lee

Kyoung Jun Lee is a South Korean management professor. He is a professor of the School of Management at Kyung Hee University. He was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley[1] from February to August 2010 and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] from September 2009 to January 2010. Education Lee received B.S. (1990), M.S. (1992), and Ph.D.

William Henry Leffingwell

William Henry Leffingwell (June 4, 1876 – December 19, 1934) was an American organizational theorist,[1] president of W. H. Leffingwell, Inc., New Jersey, management author, and the founder of National Office Management Association. Leffingwell was born in Oxford County, Ontario to Wendell Phillips and Mary Catherine (Edwards) Leffingwell, both Americans.[2] He was trained as a stenographer and “applied scientific management to

Paul Leonardi

Paul M. Leonardi was the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] He was also the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director of the Master of Technology Management Program. Leonardi moved to UCSB to found the Technology Management Program and start its Master of Technology Management and Ph.D. programs. Before joining UCSB, Leonardi was

Harry Levinson

Harry Levinson (1922 – June 26, 2012) was an American psychologist and consultant in work and organizational issues.[1] He was a pioneer in the application of psychoanalytic theory to management and leadership.[1][2] He linked the failure of managers to effectively contain the anxieties of workers to employee depression and low productivity.[3] Biography Levinson was born in Port

Theodore Levitt

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review’s circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: “Rather than merely making money, it is to create

Michael Lewis

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960)[1][2] is an American author and financial journalist.[3] He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with

Peter Lindgren

Peter Lindgren (born Dec 1, 1961) is a Danish organizational theorist, and Professor at Aarhus University’s Department of Business and Technology, known for his research involving firms’ business models, including about interdependence of partner firms’ business models and about innovation..[1][2] Biography Lindgren grew up in Skive, Denmark, where he attending the Skive Gymnasium from 1977 to 1980. In 1983

John Lintner

John Virgil Lintner, Jr. (February 9, 1916 – June 8, 1983) was a professor at the Harvard Business School in the 1960s and one of the co-creators of the capital asset pricing model. For a time, much confusion was created because the various economists working on this model independently failed to realize that they were saying much the

Thomas Williams of Llanidan

Thomas Williams (13 May 1737 – 30 November 1802) was a Welsh industrialist and Member of Parliament. At the time of his death, he was the richest man in Wales. Life Thomas Williams was born in Llanidan, Anglesey, the son of Owen Williams of Cefn Coch in Llansadwrn.[1] In the 18th century, there was a significant shortage

Ted London

Ted London is an American scholar and teacher on Base of the Pyramid (BoP) business strategies. He is the Ford Motor Company Clinical Professor of Business Administration at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. London is an internationally recognized expert on the intersection of business strategy and poverty alleviation. In 2016 London authored The Base of the Pyramid Promise:

Juan Antonio Pérez López

Juan Antonio Pérez López (1934–1996) was a Spanish business theorist. He was professor of Organizational Behavior at the IESE Business School (Spain), where he became Dean (1978–1984). He was also a visiting professor at PAD Business School of the Universidad de Piura (Peru) and IAE Business School of the Austral University (Argentina). His research and publications focus on Action Theory and its implications

Jay Lorsch

Jay William Lorsch (born 1932) is an American organizational theorist and the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School, known for his contribution of contingency theory to the field of organizational behavior. Biography Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Lorsch grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from the Pembroke Country-Day School in 1950. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Antioch

Michael Lounsbury

Michael Lounsbury (born 1966) is an American organizational theorist, Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology at the University of Alberta, and expert in innovation and institutions. Biography Lounsbury received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1999. Previously, he was a J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University. Currently he is a Professor of strategic

Randi Lunnan

Randi Lunnan (born 1963) is a Norwegian organizational theorist, and Professor at the Department of Strategy of the BI Norwegian Business School, known for her work on international strategic alliances[1] and management of international corporations.[2] Life and work Lunnan obtained her MSc in Economics in 1988 at the Norwegian School of Economics, where she continued her graduate studies. She studied