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Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
Herbert Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)
Oliver E. Williamson
American economist (1932–2020)
Franco Modigliani
Italian-American economist (1918–2003)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)
Howard Gardner
american developmental psychologist & academic
Clark Gregg
American economist (1923–2000)
Philip Kotler
American marketing author, consultant, and professor
Eli Whitney
American inventor (1765-1825)
Jeremy Rifkin
American economist
Michael Porter
American engineer and economist
W. Edwards Deming
American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)
Nicholas Negroponte
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Seth Godin
American entrepreneur, author and public speaker (b. 1960)
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
American industrial engineer (1868-1924)
Michael Lewis
American writer
Peter Senge
American systems scientist
Douglas McGregor
American professor of management
Walter A. Shewhart
American statistical quality control expert
Frederick Irving Herzberg
American psychologist (1923-2000)
Joseph M. Juran
Romanian-American engineer and management consultant (1904–2008)
Theodore Levitt
German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School (1925–2006)
James C. Collins
American business consultant and writer
Tim Ferriss
American author, entrepreneur, angel investor and public speaker
Chester Irving Barnard
American businessman (1886–1961)
Jack Trout
American marketing man (1935-2017)
James G. March
American sociologist (1928–2018)
Edgar Schein
Swiss-American psychologist
Russell L. Ackoff
American organizational theorist (1919–2009)
Clayton Christensen
American economist (1952-2020)
David Allen Aaker
American economist
Robert S. Kaplan
American accounting academic
Chris Argyris
American business theorist (1923-2013)
Warren Bennis
American leadership expert
Philip B. Crosby
American businessman and author
John Kotter
American economist (1947-)
Joseph Wharton
American industrialist (1826–1909)
Gary Hamel
American management expert
Armand V. Feigenbaum
American businessman
Harrington Emerson
American efficiency engineer and business theorist (1853–1931)
R. Edward Freeman
American philosopher (1951-)
C. West Churchman
American philosopher and systems scientist (1913-2004)
Charles Bedaux
American businessman (1886–1944)
Marvin Bower
American business theorist (1903–2003)
Edwin Francis Gay
American economist (1867–1946)
Henry Chesbrough
American business theorist
Jeffrey Pfeffer
American academic
Marshall Goldsmith
American author of leadership and management literature
Daniel McCallum
Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist (1815–1878)
Karl E. Weick
Organisational psychologist
David Meerman Scott
American online marketing strategist and writer
Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
American writer
Henry R. Towne
American engineer (1844–1924)
Dorian Shainin
Quality guru (1914–2000)
Jay R. Galbraith
American business theorist
William J. Abernathy
American academic (1933-1983)
Robert I. Sutton
American management academic
Rakesh Khurana
American business academic
Paul R. Lawrence
American business theorist (1922-2011)
Richard Cyert
American economist, statistician (1921-1998)