List of business theorists

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• Kaoru Ishikawa (1915 - 1989) Total Quality, Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram
  

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

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• Robert S. Kaplan - balanced scorecard (1990s)
• Philip Kotler - marketing management, marketing warfare (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
• John Kotter - leadership (1980s, 1990s)
  

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• 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)
  

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• Kenneth D. Mackenzie - Organizational Hologram, Organization Theories (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000)
• Mahajan - strategic models (1970s, 1980s)
• Constantinos Markides - strategy dynamics (1980s)
• Henry Markowitz - portfolio diversification (1960s, 1970s)
• Elton Mayo - the sociology of business interactions (1920s)
• Daniel McCallum - 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, strategic management (1970s,1980s, 1990s, 2000s)
• Franco Modigliani - corporate finance (1970s)
• James Moncrieff - strategy dynamics (1990s)
• Hugo Musterberg - the psychology of work (1910s)
  

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

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

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

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

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• August-Wilhelm Scheer - ARIS
• 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 - (1916-2001) "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)
  

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• 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)
  

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• 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)
  

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Harvard Business Review Survey

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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