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May 24th, 2023
Dhirubhai Ambani (December 28, 1932 – July 6, 2002) was an Indian businessman and industrialist. Dhirubhai Ambani was the founder of Reliance Industries, a large conglomerate in the petrochemical, communications, energy and textile sectors. The company was the first private…
May 23rd, 2023
Robert Blake (1918 – 2004) was an American management theoretician. Together with Jane S. Mouton, Blake developed the Managerial Grid model in 1954, which was based on field research. This Managerial Grid model is still used in organizations across…
May 23rd, 2023
Vinod Khosla (1955) is an Indian-American businessman, investor and technologist. Vinod Khosla is the co-founder of the well-known Sun Microsystems and also founder of Khosla Ventures. He earned much of his immense wealth from venture capital investments. He did these…
May 22nd, 2023
Vilfredo Pareto (1848 – 1923) was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, scientist and philosopher. During his career Vilfredo Pareto made several important contributions to economics, including a study of national income distribution and tools to analyse individual choices. One of…
May 20th, 2023
Milton Erickson (Milton Hyland Erickson; December 5, 1901 – March 25, 1980) was an American psychiatrist and psychologist. He specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy. Milton Erickson was also founder and president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis…
May 16th, 2023
Armand Feigenbaum (Armand V. Feigenbaum; 6 April 1922, 10 November 2014) was an American quality expert, businessman, and philanthropist who introduced the concept Total Quality Control what eventually led to Total Quality Management (TQM). He additionally authored the…
May 16th, 2023
Dave Ulrich (1953) is the Rensis Likert Professor of Business at the Ross School, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group. Dave Ulrich is also the founder of the Four-Role model, a HR Transformation model.
The biography…
May 16th, 2023
Ken Blanchard (1939) is a well-known American researcher, consultant and writer of several management books, including 30 best-sellers. One of the best known theories he helped to create, together with Paul Hersey, is the Situational Leadership Model, a…
May 16th, 2023
Tom Peters (1942) is a famous researcher, consultant, writer and management guru in the are of successful business management practices. Tom Peters is best known for his career at McKinsey & Company, his contribution to the development of the…
May 16th, 2023
Stephen Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was (co-)founder of the Franklin Covey Company (a large provider of training and consulting solutions with approximately 3,500 employees). In the last thirty years, Stephen Covey himself provided training services to…
May 16th, 2023
Robert Kaplan (1940) is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) and one of the creators of the Balance Scorecard (BSC). With colleague David Norton, Robert S. Kaplan did much research into the area of strategy…
May 16th, 2023
George Gerbner (8 August 1919 – 24 December 2005) was a professor of communications and the creator of the cultivation theory. This theory states that stories told by a culture determine the behaviour and values of individuals. George Gerbner…
