10 J

• Joseph M. Juran - (1904-) Internal customer, quality trilogy

11 K

• Robert Kaplan - balanced scorecard (1990s)
• Philip Kotler - marketing management, marketing warfare (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
• John KotterJohn Kotter is a professor of organizational behaviour and human resources management at Harvard University. He authored Leading Change, The Leadership Factor and Matsushita Leadership. - leadership (1980s, 1990s)

12 L

• Peter Lawrence - the Peter Principle (1970s)
• E. Learned - SWOT analysis (1970s, 1980s)
• W Leffingwell - office management (1910s)
• Theodore Levitt - marketing (1960s, 1970s)
• John Lintner - finance (1970s)

13 M

• Mahajan - strategic models ( 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends, 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends)
• Constantinos Markides - strategy dynamics (1980s)
• Henry MarkowitzHenry Markovitz wrote two classic articles on finance, " Portfolio Selection," Journal of Finance (March 1952) and "The Utility of Wealth," Journal of Political Economy (April 1952), when he was a 25 year old graduate student at the University of Chicago. - portfolio diversification (1960s, 1970s)
• Elton MayoGeorge Elton Mayo ( 1880- 1949) was born on December 26 1880 in Adelaide, Australia. He died on September 7 1949. He was a psychologist and sociologist and lectured at the University of Queensland from 1919 to 1923. He then moved to the University of Penn - the sociology of business interactions (1920s)
• Daniel McCallumDaniel Craig McCallum ( 1815- 1878) was a railroad engineer and manager. McCallum was born in Scotland in 1815. His family emigrated to New York when he was a boy. He became the General Superintendent of the New York & Erie Railway in 1855, then founded t - organizational charts (1850s)
• Regis McKenna - real-time management (1990s)
• Leo Melamed - futures exchanges (1980s - 1990s)
• Henry Metcalfe - the science of administration (1880s)
• Merton Miller - corporate finance (1970s)
• Henry Mintzberg - organizational behaviour
• Franco Modigliani - corporate finance (1970s)
• James Moncrieff - strategy dynamics (1990s)
• Hugo Musterberg - the psychology of work (1910s)

14 N

• Nicholas Negroponte - human-computer interface (2000s)

15 O

• Kenichi Ohmae - strategic thought processes (1970s, 1980s)
• David Ogilvy - advertising (1960s, 1970s)
• Robert Owen - mutually beneficial personnel practices (1810s)

16 P

• L. Paccioli - double entry bookkeeping (1340s)
• Jeffrey Pfeffer - organizational development (1980s)
• Henry Poor - the principles of organization (1850s)
• Michael Porter - strategic management, value chain, generic strategies, 5 forces (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
• Tom Peters - Excellence theories (1970s, 1980s)
• C. K. Prahalad - core competency (1980s)

17 Q

18 R

• Frederick Reichheld - the loyalty effect (1990s)
• Al Reis - positioning theory (1980s)

19 S

• Don Schultz - integrated promotional strategy (1990s)
• Walter Scott - the psychology of personnel management (1920s)
• Patricia Seybold - e-marketing, e-commerce (1990s)
• Oliver Sheldon - the philosophy of business (1920s)
• J. Sheth - business strategy (1990s)
• Walter A. Shewhart - Bell Labs 1920's-30's - control charts
• Shigeo Shingo - (1909-) Zero Quality, Poka-Yoke
• Herbert A. Simon - (1916-2991) "Satisficing," Nobel Prize 1978
• Adrian Slywotzky - value migration (1990s)
• Adam Smith - microeconomic foundations of business, specialization of labour (1770s)
• the Soranzo brothers - journals and ledgers (1410s)

20 T

• Genichi Taguchi (1924-) How product specification can become cost effective production
• Frederick Winslow Taylor - Scientific Management (1900s)
• Ordwat Tead - the psychology of industry (1910s)
• Henry Towne - the science of management (1890s)
• Jack Trout - positioning theory (1980s)

21 U

22 V

23 W

• Richard Waterman - Excellence theories (1970s, 1980s)
• James Watt - standard operating procedures, cost control (1810s)
• Joseph Wharton - first college course in business management (1881)
• Eli Whitney - interchangeable parts, cost accounting (1810s,1820s)
• Oliver Williamson - transaction cost analysis (1970s)
• Yoram Wind - strategic behavioural models (1970s, 1980s)

24 X

25 Y

26 Z

1 Harvard Business Review Survey

The Harvard Business Review asked 200 management gurus—the business thinkers most often mentioned in the media and management literature—who their gurus were. Below are their responses.

Eight Mentions Peter Drucker: Management theory

Seven Mentions James March: Social scientist at Stanford

Six Mentions Herbert Simon (1916–2001): Nobel laureate economist and organizational theorist

Five Mentions Paul Lawrence: Organizational researcher at Harvard Business School

Four Mentions Richard Beckhard (1918–1999): Management theorist at MIT • Fernand Braudel (1902–1985): French historian • Henry Mintzberg: Management writer and critic at McGill • Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950): Economist at Harvard • Karl Weick : Social psychologist at the University of Michigan

Three Mentions Russell Ackoff : Operations and systems theorist at Wharton • Warren Bennis: Leadership theorist and writer at the University of Southern California • Ronald Coase: Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago • W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993): Statistician and quality consultant • Erving Goffman (1922–1982): Sociologist • Gary Hamel: Consultant and management writer • Jay Lorsch : Organizational researcher at Harvard Business School • Michael Porter: Professor of strategy and competitiveness at Harvard Business School • C.K. Prahalad : Management theorist at the University of Michigan • Jack Welch: Former CEO, General Electric • Oliver Williamson: Organizational economist at the University of California, Berkeley

Two Mentions Chris Argyris: Organizational psychologist at Harvard • Kenneth Arrow: Nobel laureate economist at Stanford • Gregory Bateson (1904–1980): Anthropologist • Daniel Bell: Sociologist at Harvard • John Seely Brown : Former chief scientist at Xerox • Alfred Chandler : Historian at Harvard Business School • C. West Churchman: Systems theorist • James Collins : Management writer and consultant • Eric Erikson (1902–1994): Psychological-growth theorist at Harvard • Michel Foucault (1926–1984): French polymath • Anthony Giddens: British sociologist • Andrew Grove: Former CEO, Intel • Everett Hughes (1897–1983): Sociologist • Michael Jensen : Organizational strategist and former professor at Harvard Business School • Stuart Kauffman: Biologist, chaos and complexity theorist • Kurt Lewin (1890–1947): Social psychologist • Karl Marx (1818–1883): German economist and social theorist • Douglas McGregor (1906–1964): Management theorist at MIT • Robert K. Merton (1910–2003): Sociologist at Columbia • Geoffrey Moore: Management writer and consultant • Richard Pascale : Management writer and consultant • Jeffrey Pfeffer : Business professor at Stanford • Paul A. Samuelson: Nobel laureate economist at MIT • Edgar Schein: Psychologist and management scholar at MIT • Adrian Slywotsky : Management writer and consultant • Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915): The “father of scientific management” • John Van Maanen : Ethnographer at MIT • Sidney Winter : Economist at Wharton

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