Austrian-born management expert, who emigrated to the USA in 1937 and worked as an economist and political scientist before starting a career as a professor of management in 1950.
US management consultant and academic. After teaching at the London Business School for ten years from 1983, he moved back to California to found Strategos, an international consulting firm specializing in strategy.
US management consultant and founder of the global company McKinsey & Co. He was a university professor and a member of an accountancy practice when he founded McKinsey in 1926 to give financial and management advice to corporations.
US management theorist and expert on competitive strategy. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1973 and was appointed the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor in 2000, the fourth faculty member in the school's history to earn the distinction.
Throughout his career Schein has been concerned to clarify the relationship between the individual and the organization. His early work has its origins in his observations of Chinese Communists' methods of indoctrination in the Korean War.
Although his initial training at the University of Chicago was in clinical psychology, Fiedler has always been interested in industrial and organizational psychology.
David McClelland is the founder and chairman of the Board of MoBer and Co. and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His forty years of research have resulted in an internationally recognized theory of human motivation.
From Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business Trained at the City College of Detroit and at Harvard, Douglas McGregor was a social psychologist who spent his career as president of Antioch College (1948–1954) and as a professor of management at MIT. Despite producing a limited number of publications in his short life, McGregor’s work remains highly significant.
From Biographical Dictionary of Psychology Victor Vroom was born and grew up in Montreal, Canada. During his youth, he was fascinated by jazz music and played the saxophone in bands. He went to the Sir George Williams College in Montreal, where he had his first contact with psychology.