Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton (born 1954 in Chicago) is a professor of management science at the Stanford University School of Engineering and a researcher in the field of evidence-based management. He is a New York Times best-selling author.[1] Sutton received a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan in 1984. He has been on the Stanford University faculty since 1983. He has also taught at the Haas School of

A. Swanson

Gale Alden (G.A.) Swanson (Jan 12, 1939 – July 3, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Accounting at Tennessee Technological University, known for his accounting theories based on James Grier Miller’s general living systems theory.[1] Early life Gale Alden Swanson was born in Lemmon, South Dakota, on January 12, 1939, to Freda (née Wolff) and George H.A. Swanson.[1] He received

Richard A. Swanson

Richard A. Swanson (born 1942) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler (UTT), known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development. Biography Swanson was born in 1942. He received a B.A. at The College of New Jersey in

William R. Synnott

William R. (Bill) Synnott (December 29, 1929 – November 13, 2010) was an American organizational theorist, Vice President of Bank of Boston, author, consultant and lecturer, known for his work in the field of computer technology in business in the 1980s.[1][2] Biography Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, to William and Marie (Labrie) Synnott in 1929, Synnott

Genichi Taguchi

Genichi Taguchi (田口 玄一, Taguchi Gen’ichi, January 1, 1924 – June 2, 2012) was an engineer and statistician.[1] From the 1950s on, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians,[2][3] but others have accepted many of the concepts introduced by him as valid extensions to the body of knowledge. Biography

Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott CM (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute.[2] Career Tapscott has authored or co-authored sixteen books on the application

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency.[1] He was one of the first management consultants.[2] In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The Principles of Scientific Management which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management

Sridhar Tayur

Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker.[1][2] He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of SmartOps Corporation [3][4] and OrganJet Corporation.[5][6] Tayur is known as an “academic capitalist,”[7] recognized for his contribution to Inventory Theory,[8] Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, Operations Strategy,[9] Healthcare Management,

David Teece

David John Teece CNZM (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital[1] at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Teece is also the executive chairman and cofounder of Berkeley Research Group, an expert

Vern Terpstra

Vern Terpstra (August 20, 1927 – November 6, 2013) was Professor Emeritus of international business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.[1] He was a fellow of the Academy of International Business.[2][3] Biography Early life and education PHD, University Of Michigan, 1965 MBA, University Of Michigan, 1951 BBA, University Of Michigan, 1950 Career Professor Terpstra received his B.BA, M.BA,

Jacques Thomassen

Jacques J.A. Thomassen (born 23 September 1945) is a Dutch organizational theorist, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, known for his work on the theory of political and policy representation.[1][2][3] Biography Born in Diessen, Thomassen obtained his MA in Sociology in 1968 at

Bertrand Thompson

Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1882 – 1969) was an American business academic, chemist, business consultant and Unitarian minister. He was the first African-American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, known for his work on scientific management.[1] Thompson was the brother of Black newspaperman Noah Davis Thompson whose wife was Eloise Bibb Thompson. Thompson was also the uncle of Anita Thompson

Thomas Thorburn

Thomas William Thorburn (April 13, 1913 – March 13, 2003) was a Swedish economist, and Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics, known from his work on the “Supply and demand of water transport” (1960),[1] and the “Cost-benefit analysis in language planning” (1971).[2] Born in Uddevalla, Thorburn obtained his PhD in 1960 at the Stockholm School

Alvin Toffler

Alvin Eugene Toffler[1] (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world’s outstanding futurists.[2] Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early

Jean-Marie Toulouse

Jean-Marie Toulouse, CM OQ FRSC (born 1942) is a Canadian academic. He is a Professor and Director of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. In 2004, he was made an Officer (Officier) of the National Order of Quebec. In 1997, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Biographie Ttulaire d’un B. Ph. en psychologie, d’une L. Ps. et d’un

Phil Town

Philip Bradley Town (born 21 September 1948) is an American investor, motivational speaker, and author of two books on financial investment that were New York Times best-sellers. Early life and education Phil Town was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Newport High School in 1966. After four attempts at college, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University

Henry R. Towne

Henry Robinson Towne (August 24, 1844 – October 15, 1924) was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management.[1][2] He donated several millions to philanthropy at his death, in 1924.[3] Biography Towne was born in Philadelphia in 1844 to John Henry and Maria (Tevis) T. Towne.[4] He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862,

John Tregoning

John Tregoning (c. 1845 – c. 1920) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and business manager from Lynn, Massachusetts, known for writing one of the first books on factory operations in 1891.[1][2] and as early systematizer of management.[3][4] Biography Tregoning was educated as mechanical engineer and had started his career in industry in the 1860s. In the

Jack Trout

John Francis “Jack” Trout (January 31, 1935 – June 4, 2017) was an American advertising executive and an owner of Trout & Partners, a consulting firm. He was the founder and pioneer of positioning theory and also marketing warfare theory. Career Trout started his business career in the advertising department of General Electric. From there he went on to become a divisional advertising manager at

Josiah Tucker

Josiah Tucker (also Josias) (December 1713 – 4 November 1799), also known as Dean Tucker, was a Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer. He was concerned in his works with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American independence. He became Dean of Gloucester. Life He was born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire; his father inherited a small estate near Aberystwyth, and sent his son