Constantinos Markides

Constantinos C. Markides (born 1960) is a Cypriot management educator and, since 1990, the Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School[1] (London, UK). He is known for his work on strategic disruption and business models which is particularly illustrated in his book Game Changing Strategies published in 2008.[2] He was listed among the Forbes.com

Harry Markowitz

Harry Max Markowitz (August 24, 1927 – June 22, 2023) was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz was a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio

Perry Marshall

Perry Sink Marshall is an American business consultant, and author of books on marketing, business strategy, communications technology, and evolution.[1][2] Life Marshall is the son of a pastor.[3] He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.[4][better source needed] Work and publications Marshall was a national sales manager at Synergetic Micro Systems; he left in 2001 after the

Elton Mayo

George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880 – 7 September 1949) was an Australian born psychologist,[1][2][3] industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.[4][5] Mayo was formally trained at the University of Adelaide, acquiring a Bachelor of Arts Degree graduating with First Class Honours, majoring in philosophy and psychology,[4] and was later awarded an honorary Master of Arts Degree from the University of Queensland (UQ). While in Queensland, Mayo

John H. McArthur

John Hector McArthur (March 31, 1934 – August 20, 2019) was a Canadian-American organizational theorist. He served as Professor of Business Administration and the 7th Dean of the Harvard Business School (1980–1995).[1] Personal life McArthur was born on March 31, 1934[2] in Vancouver, McArthur grew up in nearby Burnaby, British Columbia. His father was a government grain inspector and his

Daniel McCallum

Daniel Craig McCallum (January 21, 1815 – December 27, 1878) was a Scottish-born American railroad engineer, general manager of the New York and Erie Railroad and Union Brevet Major General of the United States Military Railroads during the American Civil War, known as one of the early pioneers of management. He set down a group of general principles of management,[1] and is credited for having

Douglas McGregor

Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.[1] He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices. McGregor was a student of Abraham Maslow. He has contributed

Dalton McGuinty.

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty (August 13, 1926 – March 16, 1990) was a Canadian politician from Ontario. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990. He represented the riding of Ottawa South. He had 10 children, including Dalton McGuinty who was Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013, and David McGuinty who has been

Geoff Meeks

Geoffrey (Geoff) Meeks (born 1949) is a British accounting scholar and Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Cambridge, known for his work “Accounting standards and the economics of standards.”[1] Biography Meeks obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1971[2] and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Economics from the University of Edinburgh in 1975[3]

Lucas Meijs

Lucas C.P.M. Meijs (born 27 December 1963) a Dutch organizational theorist and Professor Volunteering, Civil Society and Businesses at the department Business-Society Management of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor Strategic Philanthropy at the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy.[1] Biography Born in Haarlem, Meijs studied Business Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and received a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1997. The

Leo Melamed

Leo Melamed (born March 20, 1932) is an American attorney, finance executive, and a pioneer of financial futures. He is the chairman emeritus of CME Group (formerly the Chicago Mercantile Exchange).[1] Personal life Melamed was born Leibel Melamdovich in 1932 in Bialystok, Poland into a Jewish family,[2] to two school teachers, Fayga (Barakin) Melamdovich and Isaac Melamdovich (a mathematics teacher).[3] In 1939, following Germany’s

Gary Metcalf

Gary S. Metcalf (born 1957) is an American systems scientist, organizational theorist, management consultant, and university professor. He has served as president of the International Federation for Systems Research 2010-2014. Biography Raised in Oviedo, Florida Metcalf received a B.S. in Education in 1981 from the North Texas State University, an M.S.S.W. in Social Work in 1985 from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in Human Science in

Henry C. Metcalf

Henry Clayton Metcalf (February 22, 1867 – August 1942[1]) was an early American organizational theorist, Professor of Political Science at Tufts College in Massachusetts and Chairman of Tufts College, known from his publications on management with Ordway Tead[2][3] and Lyndall Urwick. Biography Born in Warsaw, Illinois to Thomas B. and Mary A. (Chambers) Metcalf obtained his AB degree at the Illinois State Normal University in

Henry Metcalfe

Captain Henry Metcalfe (October 29, 1847 – August 17, 1927) was an officer in the United States Army Ordnance Corps, inventor and early organizational theorist, known for his 1873 invention of a detachable magazine for small arms,[1] for his work on modern management accounting,[2][3] the development of the “time card” and his theory on the role of middle

Gerald Midgley

Gerald Robert Midgley (born 1960) is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president (2013-2014) of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is known for his work on “Systemic Intervention;”[1][2] which he defined as “purposeful action by an agent to create change in relation

Danny Miller

Danny Miller (born 1947) is a Canadian economist and Strategy Professor (Rogers-J.A.-Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship) at HEC Montréal. He also teaches at the Chair in Family Enterprise and Strategy at the University of Alberta.[1] According to a statement by HEC, Miller is the fifth-most cited management researcher in the world.[2] Besides teaching, Miller works as a strategy

Merton Miller

Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg OC OQ FRSC (born September 2, 1939) is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968.[1] Early life Mintzberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Jewish parents Myer (a

Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani (18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003)[1] was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Early life and education Modigliani was born on 18 June 1918 in Rome to the Jewish family of a pediatrician father and a

Geoffrey Moore

Geoffrey Moore (born 1946) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant and author,[2] known for his work Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers.[3] Biography Moore received a bachelor’s degree in American literature from Stanford University (1967) and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Washington (1974).[4][5] Moore began his professional life as an English professor