Richard Moran

Richard A. Moran is a San Francisco based speaker, investor, venture capitalist, author[1] and president emeritus of Menlo College. He is known for his series of business books beginning with, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality that established the genre of “Business Bullet Books.” Biography Raised in Rahway, New Jersey,[2] Moran graduated in 1968 from Rahway High School.[3] Moran is General Partner at Tonic

Gareth Morgan

Gareth Morgan (born 22 December 1943) is a British/Canadian organizational theorist, management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He is known as creator of the “organisational metaphor” concept and writer of the 1979 book Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis with Gibson Burrell and the 1986 best-seller Images of Organization.[1] Biography Born in Porthcawl, Wales, Morgan took his grammar school education in Bridgend, Wales

Gerry Morgan

Gerry Morgan (born June 8, 1953) is a Canadian entrepreneur and educator specializing in ICT and creating working private-public partnerships. He has worked within the Canadian schooling system for almost 20 years. He has developed ICT learning resources to support classroom and administrative practices.[1] Educator and Entrepreneur Gerry is currently the Principal of the International Division of Changchun Experimental School in Changchun City,

Silvina Moschini

Silvina Moschini (born 1972) is an Argentine entrepreneur. As a businesswoman, she is the founder of Yandiki, SheWorks!, and Intuic and the president of KMGi Group. As an analyst of Internet trends, she appears on networks including CNN en Español and Nuestra Tele Noticias 24 Horas. Early life and education Moschini was born in Azul, Argentina.[1] She holds a BA in Public Relations Universidad Argentina de la

Moses

Moses[note 1] (/ˈmoʊzɪz, –zɪs/)[2] is considered the most important prophet in Judaism[3][4] and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith,[5][6] the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran,[7] Moses was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the authorship, or “acquisition from heaven”, of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is attributed.[8] According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was

Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad[a] (Arabic: مُحَمَّد; c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE)[b] was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.[c] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.[2][3][4] He is believed to be the Seal of the Prophets within Islam. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the basis of Islamic

Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (/ˈmʊnstərbɜːrɡ/; June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to industrial/organizational (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg experienced immense turmoil with the outbreak of the First World War. Torn between his loyalty to the United States and his

Keith Murnighan

J. Keith Murnighan was an American social scientist and author, born on November 23, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. He died on June 3, 2016.[1] He was the Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he taught from 1996-2016. His areas of expertise included: Leadership, Negotiations, Ethics, Individual

Christa Muth

Christa Muth (born November 24, 1949) is a German systems scientist, management professor and management consultant. She spent most of her life in Switzerland and is notable for emphasizing the importance of the intangible aspects in organizations and in business strategies. She coined the term “Human Systems Engineering” and gave it to a Master of Advanced Studies Program

Guru Nanak

Gurū Nānak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; pronunciation: [gʊɾuː naːnəkᵊ], pronunciation), also referred to as Bābā Nānak (‘father Nānak’),[12] was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi (‘full-moon of Kattak’), i.e. October–November. Nanak is said to have travelled far and wide across Asia teaching people the message of ik

Peter Naudé

Peter Naudé (born 1950s) is a British organisational theorist and Professor of Marketing at the Manchester Business School, known for his work on business networks.[1] Life and work Naudé obtained his Phd in Marketing 1992 at the Manchester Business School. In the 1980s Naude had started his academic career at the University of Cape Town, where he taught at

Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 bestseller Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.[1] Early life Negroponte was born to Dimitrios Negropontis (Greek: Νεγροπόντης), a Greek shipping magnate and

Nobuo Noda

Nobuo Noda (野田 信夫, Noda Nobuo, April 24, 1893 – 1993) was a prominent Japanese business scholar[1] professor of management at the Seikei University and president of the Seikei University in Tokyo,[2] known as one of Japan’s longstanding leaders in the field of management theory,[3] a specialist in productivity matters.[4] Biography Youth, education and early career Noda was born in Nagano, Nagano in 1893.[5] He graduated from Tokyo University in 1921

Kjell A. Nordström

Kjell Anders Nordström (born 26 February 1958) is a Swedish economist, writer and public speaker.[1][2] Biography Born in Skärholmen, a suburban district in southern Stockholm, Nordström grew up on a small island in the Finnish Åland archipelago. His parents returned to Sweden in the 1960s. He was first educated as an engineer and thereafter commenced studies at the Stockholm School of Economics where he earned a Ph.D. in

Arne Nygaard

Arne Nygaard (born 17 May 1957) is a Norwegian organizational theorist best known for his work with Robert Dahlstrom on transaction costs in franchising.[1][2] Biography Nygaard obtained his Master of Business and Economics (MBE) at the BI Norwegian Business School in 1982, his Master of Science at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, where he also obtained his PhD in

George S. Odiorne

George Stanley Odiorne (November 4, 1920 – January 19, 1992) was an American academic and management theorist. He was one of the developers of the theory, Management by Objectives (MBO). Early life George S. Odiorne was born in 1920 in Merrimac, Massachusetts.[1] He grew up in Lowell, and he had a brother and two sisters.[1] During World War II, he served in

David Ogilvy

David Mackenzie Ogilvy CBE (/ˈoʊɡəlviː/; 23 June 1911 – 21 July 1999) was a British advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, and known as the “Father of Advertising.” Trained at the Gallup research organisation, he attributed the success of his campaigns to meticulous research into consumer habits. His most famous campaigns include Rolls-Royce, Dove soap, and Hathaway shirts.

Kenichi Ohmae

Kenichi Ohmae (大前 研一, Ōmae Ken’ichi, born February 22, 1943) is a Japanese organizational theorist, management consultant, Former Professor and Dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and author, known for developing the 3C’s Model.[1] Biography Born in 1943 in Kitakyūshū, Ohmae earned a BS in chemistry in 1966 from Waseda University, an MS in nuclear physics in 1968 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology,

Taiichi Ohno

Ohno Taiichi (大野耐一, Ōno Taiichi, February 29, 1912 – May 28, 1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer and businessman. He is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, which inspired Lean Manufacturing in the U.S.[1][2] He devised the seven wastes (or muda in Japanese) as part of this system. He wrote several books about the system, including Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Life Born in

Sharon Oster

Sharon Monica Oster (September 3, 1948 – June 10, 2022) was an American economist. She was the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor Emerita of Management and Entrepreneurship and the dean of Yale School of Management, where she was the first woman to receive tenure, and the first female dean.[1][2] She was widely known as an economist focusing on business