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About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney (1765–1825), James Watt (1736–1819), and Matthew Boulton (1728–1809) developed elements of technical production such as standardization, quality-control procedures, cost-accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work-planning. Many of these aspects of management existed in the pre-1861 ...
William James Reddin also known as Bill Reddin (May 10, 1930 – June 20, 1999) was a British-born management behavioralist, theorist, writer, and consultant. His published works examined and explained how managers in profit and non-profit organizations behaved under certain situations and conditions. [ 1 ]
James David Mooney (18 February 1884 – 21 September 1957) was an American engineer and corporate executive at General Motors who played a role in international affairs in the 1930s and early 1940s. His career was disrupted for being a Nazi sympathizer in 1940.
David Allred Whetten (born June 22, 1946) is an American organizational theorist and Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy at the Marriott School of Management at the Brigham Young University.
Griffin completed a Bachelor of Arts at Brown University in 1970. He attended Harvard Medical School, earning his M.D. in 1974. Griffin completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a hematology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a medical oncology fellowship at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. [3]
Brown was director of Xerox PARC from 1990 to 2000 and chief scientist at Xerox from 1992 to 2002; during this time the company played a leading role in the development of numerous influential computer technologies. [2] [3] Brown is the co-author of The Social Life of Information, a 2000 book which analyzes the adoption of information technologies.
Brown's debut book, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (2006), traces the personal stories and social, economic, and environmental causes of the Great Hinckley Fire of September 1, 1894, which burned an area of up to 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2; 390 sq mi), including the town of Hinckley, Minnesota. The fire killed hundreds ...
Stoner is presently a professor at Fordham University. Stoner is an author and co-author of a number of books and journal articles, including; Management, six editions, Prentice Hall; [2] and Introduction to Business, Scott Foresman; and World-class Managing-Two Pages at a Time (co-author Freeload Press 2010).