Joseph M. Juran

Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer, management consultant and author. He was an advocate for quality and quality management and wrote several books on the topics.[1] He was the brother of Academy Award winner Nathan Juran. Early life Juran was born in Brăila, Romania, one of six children born to Gitel and Jakob Juran; they

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943)[3] is the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor of business at Harvard Business School.[4] She is also director and chair of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative.[5] Early life and education Kanter was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Helen (Smolen) Moss, a schoolteacher, and Nelson Nathan Moss, a lawyer and small-business owner.[6] She has a

Robert S. Kaplan

Robert Samuel Kaplan (born 1940) is an American accounting academic, and Emeritus Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is known as co-creator of Balanced Scorecard.[1][2] together with David P. Norton. Biography Kaplan started his academic career at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1968. Kaplan did Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Electrical Engineering

Dexter Keezer

Dexter Morriam Keezer (24 August 1895 – June 24, 1991) was an American economist who served as president of Reed College from 1934 to 1942. Biography Dexter Merriam Keezer was born Aug. 24, 1895, in Acton, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from Amherst College in 1920, received an M.A. from Cornell University in 1923 and a Ph.D. from the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and

Kevin Lane Keller

Kevin Lane Keller (born June 23, 1956) is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is most notable for having authored Strategic Brand Management (Prentice Hall, 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2012), a widely used text on brand management. The book is focused on the “how to” and “why” of brand management, this strategy

Roy B. Kester

Roy Bernard Kester (September 11, 1882 – October 21, 1965) was an American accountant, and Professor of accounting at the Columbia University. He is known as a prolific author in the field of accounting.[1] Biography Born in Cameron, Missouri to Julius B. and Jessie M. Corn Kester, Kester attended Cameron High School, and obtained his BA in economics in

Tarun Khanna

Tarun Khanna (born; 1968) is an Indian-born American academic, author, and an economic strategist. He is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School; where he is a member of the strategy group, and the director of Harvard University’s South Asia initiative since 2010.[2] He joined the HBS faculty in 1993, after obtaining a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and

Walter Kickert

Walter Julius Michael Kickert (born 1950) is a Dutch academic, and Professor of Public Management at the department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for his work on “Public policy and administration sciences in the Netherlands.”[1][2] Biography Kickert obtained his MA in experimental physics from the University of Utrecht, and his PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology in

John Warren Kindt

John W. Kindt, MBA, J.D., LL.M., SJD, is a gambling critic and a Professor of Business and Legal Policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1990, Professor Kindt has probably been best known as one of the most well-published academics in issues relating to gambling. He has served as a senior editor, contributing

Charles Edward Knoeppel

Charles Edward (C. E.) Knoeppel (15 April 1881 – 29 November 1936)[1] was an American organizational theorist and consultant, who was among the foremost writers on management techniques early 20th century.[2][3] Biography Knoeppel was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as son of John C. Knoeppel, a practical molder and foundryman,[4] who had received some patents in 1878,[5] 1881,[6][7] and later on in 1909.[8] The family moved to Buffalo,

Richard Koch

Richard John Koch (born 28 July 1950 in London) is a British management consultant, venture capital investor and author of books on management, marketing and lifestyle. Career Koch has an M.A. from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School. Initially Koch worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. Subsequently he became a partner at Bain and Company. After leaving Bain

Lars Kolind

Lars Kolind (born 5 May 1947) is a Danish businessman.[1] Kolind holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Aarhus University from 1972 and a B.Comm. from the Copenhagen Business School from 1977. He is adjunct professor of leadership and strategy at Aarhus University Business School (Aarhus School of Business) since 2000.[1][2] He serves as Detao Master of Leadership and Strategy since 2012.[1] Career Kolind was executive vice president of Risø National Laboratory from 1981 to 1984

Monika Kostera

Monika Maria Kostera (born 28 February 1963) is a Polish sociologist of management. She is known for her contribution to organization theory, organizational archetypes and myths, storytelling and narrative analysis in organizational anthropology. She holds professorships at University of Warsaw, Södertörn University in Sweden and Institut Mines-Télécom Business School in France. Career Monika Kostera graduated from the Lund University, Sweden (1983) and Warsaw University, Poland (1988). She defended her doctoral dissertation

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.