William Ouchi

William G. “Bill” Ouchi (born 1943) is an American professor and author in the field of business management. He is the Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations, Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Early years and education He was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He earned a BA from Williams College in 1965, and

Robert Owen

Robert Owen (/ˈoʊɪn/; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and sought a more collective approach to child-rearing, including government control of education.[1] He gained wealth in the early 1800s from

Luca Pacioli

Fra. Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517)[3] was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent.[4][a] He was also

Krishna Palepu

Krishna Palepu (born 1954) is an American academic, author, consultant and director of various corporations. He is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.[1] He serves as Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University for Global Strategy.[2] Education Palepu has a master’s degree in Physics from Andhra University in India,[citation needed] an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,[3] and a doctorate

Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson (born December 29, 1969)[1] is an American financial journalist and bestselling author.[2][3] He is a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and author of Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System and The New York Times bestselling book The Quants.[4][5][6] Journalism Patterson has as Master of Arts and English degree from James Madison University.[7][8] Patterson is a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering government

Keith Pavitt

Keith Pavitt (January 13, 1937, in London – December 20, 2002, in Lewes, East Sussex) was an English scholar in the field of Science and Technology Policy and Innovation Management. He was professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex from 1984 to his death. Biography Keith Pavitt grew up in Hackney,

Edith Penrose

Edith Elura Tilton Penrose (November 15, 1914 – October 11, 1996) was an American-born British economist whose best known work is The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Writing in The Independent, the economist Sir Alec Cairncross stated that the book brought Dr. Penrose “instant recognition as a creative

Javier Perez-Capdevila

Javier Perez-Capdevila (born February 7, 1963) is a Cuban scientist, mathematician and professor, known for the introduction of the operation mixed mixtures of fuzzy sets, among other theoretical contributions to fuzzy mathematics, as well as to introduce a concept of labor competencies with a method to measure them. Main scientific contributions From the concept of index or coefficient of

Oscar E. Perrigo

Charles Oscar Eugene Perrigo (1848 – 1923) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and early technical and management author, known for his work on machine shop construction and management,[1][2] and for his work on lathe design, construction and operation.[3] Life and work Perrigo was born in New York and received his education as mechanical engineer. After about three decennia working in industry as

Laurence J. Peter

Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and “hierarchiologist” who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle. Biography Peter was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the grandson of William Herbert Steves, the founder of Steveston, British Columbia. Peter began his career as a teacher in

Thomas J. Peters

Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer on business management practices, best known for In Search of Excellence (co-authored with Robert H. Waterman Jr.) Life and education Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He went to Severn School, a private, preparatory high school, graduating in 1960.[1] Peters then attended Cornell University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1964,[2] and a master’s degree in

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Jeffrey Pfeffer (born July 23, 1946, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American business theorist and the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today’s most influential management thinkers.[1][2] Biography Pfeffer graduated high school from the Webb School of California. He received his BS and MS

Robert Allen Phillips

Robert Phillips (born April 18, 1968) is the George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the Schulich School of Business; York University. In 2016–17, he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business. He has also taught at the University of Richmond, Cheung Kong Graduate School of

Rebecca Piekkari

Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari (born Dec. 4, 1967) is a Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of International Business at the Aalto University, and Vice Dean of its Department of Management Studies, known for her work on “international business research.”[1] and on multinational corporations.[2] Life and work Piekkari obtained her MSc in International Business in 1990 at the Helsinki School of

Henry Varnum Poor

Henry Varnum Poor (December 8, 1812 – January 4, 1905) was an American financial analyst and founder of H.V. and H.W. Poor Co, which later evolved into the financial research and analysis bellwether, Standard & Poor’s. Biography Born in East Andover, Massachusetts (now Andover, Maine) to Sylvanus and Mary (Merrill) Poor,[1]: 2  he was the first of his family to attend college,

Michael Porter

Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947)[2] is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited for creating Porter’s

K. Prahalad

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010)[1] was an Indian-American[4] entrepreneur and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.[5] He co-authored “Core Competence of the Corporation”[6] with Gary Hamel; and “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”[7] with Stuart L. Hart, about business opportunity

Derek S. Pugh

Derek Salman Pugh (31 August 1930 – 29 January 2015) was a British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD),[1][2] and particularly the Pugh Matrix, a tool within OD.[3][4] Biography Born in London, Pugh obtained his academical MA in 1953 and his MSc in 1956

Donald R. de Raadt

J. Donald R. de Raadt (born 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus in Informatics and System Science at Luleå University of Technology. Biography J. Donald R. de Raadt studied Economics and Politics at the University of Queensland, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and later studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he first obtained his post-graduate

Navi Radjou

Navi Radjou (born 14 August 1970) is an Indian born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme of frugal innovation. Career Radjou was born in India with French-American dual citizenship.[clarification needed] He earned a diploma in