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List of the most influential people in Management,

#151

Eric Schulz

#178237

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Eric Schulz is a US marketing management and sport management expert, faculty member of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and author of three books on marketing. Biography Early life Eric Schulz was born in 1957. In his youth he played baseball and basketball, and while studying at Orem High School in 1974 he participated in setting the world record for basketball marathon, a 45-hour game which record was published in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records. After graduating from Orem High School in 1976 Schulz went to study political science at Brigham Young University in Provo where he rec...

#152

Rosalind Brewer

#173379

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman, and was the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, before stepping down in September 2023. Brewer is the first woman to become CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, group president and COO of Starbucks, and CEO of Sam's Club.

#153

Sheldon Patinkin

#29561

Overall Influence

1935 - 2014 (79 years)

Sheldon Arthur Patinkin was a chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago, artistic director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, Artistic Consultant of The Second City and of Steppenwolf Theatre and co-director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Summer Ensemble Workshops.

#154

Jeffrey E. Barlough

#164755

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Jeffrey E. Barlough is an American biologist, veterinarian, and novelist. In 1986, Barlough was a lecturer at the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. He is also the author of several dark fantasy novels that comprise his Western Lights series, set in an alternate world in which the last ice age never ended.

#155

Michael L. Good

#59343

Overall Influence

Michael L. Good is an American anesthesiologist and the CEO of University of Utah Health , Executive Dean of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, and the A. Lorris Betz Senior Vice President of Health Sciences. He served as the interim president of the University of Utah from Feb-Sept. of 2021.

#156

John L. Flannery

John L. Flannery

#150180

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

John L. Flannery is an American business executive. He succeeded Jeff Immelt as the eleventh CEO and tenth Chairman of General Electric, serving as CEO from August 2017 until October 1, 2018. Prior to ascending to the CEO role, Flannery held leadership roles inside GE for nearly 30 years, heading GE Healthcare, GE India and other business units throughout his career.

#157

Eugene Habecker

#61839

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Dr. Eugene B. Habecker is the President Emeritus of Taylor University and chairman of Christianity Today. Previously, Habecker served as the 30th president of Taylor University, as well as president of the American Bible Society. He is also the author of several books, two coauthored with his wife, Marylou Habecker. He was inaugurated in a ceremony on Friday, April 28, 2006, in Odle Arena on the Upland campus, only two days after a tragic fatal car accident involving several students and employees.

#158

Thomas Ashley Graves Jr.

#110552

Overall Influence

1924 - 2016 (92 years)

Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. was an American academic who was the twenty-third president of the College of William & Mary, serving from 1971 to 1985. He next served as director of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library from 1985 to 1992. His personal papers as well as his papers from his time as president of the College of William & Mary, are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William & Mary.

#159

Tan Lin

#119656

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Tan Anthony Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. He defines his work as "ambient" literature, which draws on and samples source material from the Internet and popular culture to address issues involving plagiarism, copyright, and technology.

#160

John C. Bravman

John C. Bravman

#49170

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

John C. Bravman is an American academic administrator who is currently serving as the 17th president of Bucknell University. He came to Bucknell after a 35-year career at Stanford University, where he served as the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Dean of the Freshman and Sophomore College, and Bing Centennial Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He also serves as the chair of the board of directors at Geisinger Health System.

#161

Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet

#143256

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet is an American academic administrator. She was the president of Antioch University Seattle from 2007 to 2013—the first Native American woman to serve as president of an accredited university outside of the Tribal College and University System. She was formerly the president of Diné College from 2000 to 2003.

#162

Howard Deutch

#114687

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Howard Deutch is an American film and television director who worked in collaboration with filmmaker John Hughes, directing two of Hughes's best-known screenplays, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful. Since 2011, he has primarily directed television productions, including multiple episodes of Getting On and True Blood.

#163

Diana Natalicio

#23405

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Diana Natalicio was an American academic administrator who served as 10th president of the University of Texas at El Paso from 1988 to 2019. After growing up in St. Louis, Natalicio studied Spanish as an undergraduate, completed a master's degree in Portuguese and earned a doctorate in linguistics. She became an assistant professor at UTEP in 1971, and was named the first female president of the university on February 11, 1988.

#164

Mike Wilson

#181914

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Michael S. Wilson is an American business executive, video game producer, and film-maker. Beginning his career at DWANGO as Vice President of Development before being hired to lead marketing and publishing at id Software in 1995, Wilson has subsequently co-founded multiple independent video game publishers, including Gathering of Developers, Gamecock Media Group, Devolver Digital, Good Shepherd Entertainment, and DeepWell DTx.

#165

Frederick Larson

Frederick Larson

#184697

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Frederick Anthony Heep "Rick" Larson is an American lawyer and law professor who became a filmmaker after he investigated the Star of Bethlehem and became a traveling speaker on the topic, then made his first documentary film The Star of Bethlehem about his findings in 2007. In March 2019 Larson released his second film, the documentary The Christ Quake, which had been in production since 2013.

#166

Larry S. Miller

#190119

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Larry S. Miller is an American-born serial entrepreneur, educator, music producer, consultant, and public policy advisor based in New York City. He is currently clinical associate professor of music business at New York University and the leader of Miller and Co., a media and tech consultancy he founded in 2009. He is a frequent commentator on music, copyright, and licensing issues whose views have been featured on CNBC, CNN, FOX News, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and Billboard.

#167

David C. Hardesty Jr.

#175634

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

David Carter Hardesty Jr. is an American lawyer and educator who was the 21st president of West Virginia University from 1995 to 2007. As an undergraduate student at West Virginia University, Hardesty was student body president, a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and a Rhodes Scholar. Hardesty earned a B.A. from Oxford University in 1969 which was redesignated an M.A. in 1983. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973. and He was a partner with Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love from 1973 to 1995, and served as the Tax Commissioner of West Virginia from 1977 to 1980. Hardesty then began his twelve-year tenure as president of WVU.

#168

Elizabeth Coleman

#25894

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Elizabeth Coleman was the ninth president of Bennington College from 1987 to 2013. Coleman also served as the founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The New School for Social Research.

#169

George M. Modlin

#107042

Overall Influence

1903 - 1998 (95 years)

George Matthews Modlin was president of the University of Richmond from 1946 to 1971. He then served as chancellor of the university until 1986 and chancellor emeritus until his death in 1998. The George M. Modlin Fine Arts Building at the University of Richmond, opened in 1968, was named in his honor upon his retirement in 1971. In 1994, the building was renamed the Booker Hall of Music as the University prepared to expand the fine arts complex. The entire project, opened in 1996, then became known as the George M. Modlin Center for the Arts.

#170

Robert D. Clark

#85914

Overall Influence

1910 - 2005 (95 years)

Robert Donald Clark was an educator and university administrator. Early life Robert Donald Clark was born in Frontier County, Nebraska, on March 10, 1910. The family moved frequently. Education Clark graduated from high school in Colorado, then received a B.A. in English from Pasadena College in 1931 and a M.A. in Speech from the University of Southern California in 1935. While at USC Clark also taught freshman composition at various colleges. Clark received his Ph.D. in 1946, also from USC with a dissertation titled "The Platform and Pulpit Career and Rhetorical Theory of Bishop Matthew...

#171

Charles M. Roessel

#169811

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Charles Monty Roessel is a Navajo photographer, journalist and academic administrator. Roessel served as Director of the Bureau of Indian Education from 2013 until 2016. He currently serves as the president of Diné College.

#172

Francesco Cesareo

#86288

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Francesco C. Cesareo is an American academic administrator and historian who has served as the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts since October 12, 2007. Cesareo is also the chairman of the National Review Board since 2013.

#173

Bill George

#191309

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

William W. George is an American businessman and academic. He is a professor of management practice, and a Henry B. Arthur Fellow of Ethics at Harvard Business School. He previously served as chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic.

#174

Charlie Nelms

#59857

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Charlie Nelms is an educator and administrator who served as the tenth chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. On July 26, 2012, after completing a five-year commitment to serve at the institution, Dr. Nelms announced his retirement, effective August 6, 2012. He currently is a contributing writer to The Huffington Post on educational issues and has founded Destination Graduation, a non-profit organization focused on increasing retention and graduation rates at the nation's historically black colleges and universities .

#175

Mel Stewart

#185986

Overall Influence

1929 - 2002 (73 years)

Milton "Mel" Stewart was an American character actor, television director, and musician who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. He is best known for playing Henry Jefferson on All in the Family and for playing section chief Billy Melrose on the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Stewart is sometimes credited as Melvin Stewart or Mel Stuart.

#176

Joel Zwick

#107406

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Joel Rudolf Zwick is an American film director, television director, and theater director. He worked on the television series Perfect Strangers, Full House, and Family Matters, and directed the films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Second Sight, and Fat Albert.

#177

Bruce McLarty

#61746

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Bruce D. McLarty is an American academic and Christian minister. He served as the fifth president of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, from 2013 to 2020. Prior to becoming president of the university, McLarty served as the institution's Dean of the College of Bible and Ministry and the "vice president for spiritual life" from 2005 to 2013. McLarty was the primary minister of College Church of Christ in Searcy from 1991 to 2005; he has held other preaching positions in Tennessee and Mississippi.

#178

Maggie Greenwald

Maggie Greenwald

#178782

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Maggie Greenwald is an American filmmaker. Most recognized as an independent writer and director, Greenwald’s most notable films include Sophie and the Rising Sun , starring an ensemble cast that included Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson, Lorraine Toussaint and Diane Ladd, Songcatcher starring Aidan Quinn and Janet McTeer and introducing Emmy Rossum, and The Ballad of Little Jo , starring Suzy Amis and Ian McKellen. She also directed an adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Kill-Off featuring an ensemble cast that included Cathy Haase and the film debut of Jorja Fox.

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