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Robert S. Kaplan
1940 - Present (84 years)
Robert Samuel Kaplan is an American accounting academic, and Emeritus Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is known as co-creator of Balanced Scorecard. together with David P. Norton.
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Henry Mintzberg
1939 - Present (85 years)
Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968.
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Peter Drucker
1909 - 2005 (96 years)
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and invented the concepts known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".
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Charles Thomas Horngren
1926 - 2011 (85 years)
Charles Thomas Horngren was an American accounting scholar and professor of accounting at Stanford University, known for his work in "pioneering modern-day management accounting." Biography Born in Milwaukee, Horngren joined the U.S. Army after high school graduation in 1946. Back in Milwaukee, he obtained his BA in accounting at the Marquette University in 1949. In 1952 he obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School, and in 1955 his PhD from University of Chicago.
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David Teece
1948 - Present (76 years)
David John Teece is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Go to ProfileJoseph D. Piotroski is the Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and a senior fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research . Prior to joining Stanford in 2007, Piotroski was at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business .
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David F. Larcker
1950 - Present (74 years)
David F. Larcker is an American academic and author. He is the James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting, and director of the Corporate Governance Research Initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, senior faculty of The Arthur and Toni Rembi Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, codirector of the Stanford Directors' Consortium Executive Program and Professor of Law , of Stanford Law School. He also serves as a trustee of the Wells Fargo Advantage Funds.
Go to ProfileMadhav V. Rajan is an Indian-American professor and academic administrator. He is the dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Early life Madhav V. Rajan graduated from the University of Madras in India in 1984. Rajan earned a master of science in Accounting in 1987, followed by a master of science in Industrial Administration in 1989, and a PhD in Accounting in 1990, all from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1990, his dissertation won the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory.
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W. Steve Albrecht
1947 - Present (77 years)
W. Steve Albrecht is the Andersen Alumni Professor at the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University . He is a former president of the American Accounting Association and was previously president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He was also formerly an associate dean of the Marriott School of Management. Albrecht served as the mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kazuo Hiramatsu
1947 - 2020 (73 years)
Kazuo Hiramatsu was a Japanese scholar of international accounting, who served as the 17th President of Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan from 2002 to 2008. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University and received his Ph.D. in International Accounting. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in 1977-1979, and a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow in 1991. His research interests are in financial accounting and international accounting.
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Russell W. Belk
1945 - Present (79 years)
Russell W. Belk is an American business academic, currently a Distinguished Research Professor and the Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at Schulich School of Business, York University. Professor Belk is a leading authority on consumption, consumer culture, consumer behaviour, materialism, collecting, gift-giving, sharing and the digital self. In 2017, he was elected to the Royal Order of Canada, one of the highest honours that can be bestowed on researchers in Canada.
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William H. Beaver
1940 - Present (84 years)
William H. Beaver is an accounting researcher and educator. He is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Early in his career, he was professor at University of Chicago.
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Chris Argyris
1923 - 2013 (90 years)
Chris Argyris was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.
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J. Scott Armstrong
1937 - Present (87 years)
John Scott Armstrong was an author, forecasting and marketing expert, and an Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Armstrong's research and writing in forecasting promote the ideas that in order to maximize accuracy, forecasting methods should rely on evidence-based methods.
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Michael Wright
1952 - 2019 (67 years)
Michael Wright was a fellow of the British Academy elected in 2016 and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Wright was also Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, the first centre to be established devoted to the study of private equity and buyouts, which was founded in March 1986 at the Nottingham University Business School. He wrote over 40 books and more than 300 papers in academic and professional journals on management buy-outs, venture capital, habitual entrepreneurs, academic entrepreneurs, and related topics. Wright was a Fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences and The British Academy of Management.
Go to ProfileA. "Parsu" Parasuraman is an Indian-American marketing professor and author. He is the Professor and the James W. McLamore Chair in Marketing at the University of Miami. Education Parasuraman got his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and MBA in Marketing from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1970 and 1972 respectively. He then proceeded to the United States where he gained a doctorate in Business Administration from Indiana University in 1975.
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Jagdish Sheth
1938 - Present (86 years)
Jagdish N. Sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. He was a prominent member of the core team during the initial years of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, the first Indian Institute of Management. Prof. Sheth was awarded by Padma Bhushan 2020 for his work in literature & education in United States.
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Jay Lorsch
1932 - Present (92 years)
Jay William Lorsch is an American organizational theorist and the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School, known for his contribution of contingency theory to the field of organizational behavior.
Go to ProfileShaker A. Zahra is the Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship and professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is also the academic director of the Gary S. Holmes Entrepreneurship Center.
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Peter Buckley
1949 - Present (75 years)
Peter Jennings Buckley is Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds and director of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds . Buckley was educated at Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School and graduated from the University of York with a BA in social sciences in 1970. He also has an MA in development economics from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in economics from the University of Lancaster. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Economics at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Ikujiro Nonaka
1935 - Present (89 years)
Ikujiro Nonaka is a Japanese organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of the Hitotsubashi University, best known for his study of knowledge management.
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Michael Power
1957 - Present (67 years)
Michael Kevin Power FBA is professor of accounting at the London School of Economics. He is a fellow of the British Academy an academic governor of the LSE, and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales .
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Rajiv Banker
1953 - Present (71 years)
Rajiv D. Banker was an accounting researcher and educator, recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 150 most influential researchers in economics and business. He was the Director of the Center for Accounting and Information Technology at the Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University. He was also President of the International Data Envelopment Analysis Society and Editor-in-Chief of the Data Envelopment Analysis Journal.
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Henry Chesbrough
1956 - Present (68 years)
Henry William Chesbrough is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Maire Tecnimont Chair of Open Innovation at Luiss. He is known for coining the term open innovation.
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David Solomons
1912 - 1995 (83 years)
David Solomons was a British/American accounting scholar, known from his work on accounting and business management, its concepts, standards, history and politicization. Biography Born in London, Solomons obtained his BCom from the London School of Economics in 1932. In 1936 he obtained his Chartered Accountant licence for England and Wales, and became Associate of the Chartered Accountants.
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Krishna Palepu
1954 - Present (70 years)
Krishna Palepu is an American academic, author, consultant and director of various corporations. He is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He serves as Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University for Global Strategy.
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Joel S. Demski
1940 - Present (84 years)
Joel S. Demski is an American accounting researcher and educator, and Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar at University of Florida, inducted to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2000. Life and work Born in Sturgis, Michigan to George and Athalia Demski, Demski moved with his family to Pinconning, Michigan, where he grew up and his father had his own machine shop. He received a BSE in industrial engineering in 1962 from the University of Michigan, and MBA degree with high distinction in 1963. In this MBA program he encountered William A. Paton and took courses from Stephen A. Zeff and Samuel R. Hepworth.
Go to ProfileKenneth Merchant holds the Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, part of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is the former dean of the Leventhal School.
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Thomas W. Malone
1952 - Present (72 years)
Thomas W. Malone is an American organizational theorist, management consultant, and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Biography Malone received his BA in applied mathematics, graduating magna cum laude from Rice University. He earned his MS in engineering-economic systems, and his Ph.D. in cognitive and social psychology, both from Stanford University.
Go to ProfileKatherine Schipper is an American accounting researcher and educator. Currently the Thomas F. Keller professor of accounting at Duke University, she has also been a professor at University of Chicago and Carnegie-Mellon University. She is a past president of the American Accounting Association. Also, she has taught the MBA programs at University of Frankfurt's Goethe Business School.
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Geoff Meeks
1949 - Present (75 years)
Geoffrey Meeks is a British accounting scholar and Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Cambridge, known for his work "Accounting standards and the economics of standards." Biography Meeks obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Economics from the University of Edinburgh in 1975
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Bruce Kogut
1953 - Present (71 years)
Bruce Mitchel Kogut is an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Leadership and Ethics Director of the Columbia Business School. He is particularly known for his work with Udo Zander on knowledge-based theory of the firm.
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Scott Shane
1964 - Present (60 years)
Scott Andrew Shane is the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University. He has written over sixty academic papers on entrepreneurship, as well as writing or editing ten books on the subject. His research has focused on many aspects of entrepreneurship, including technology entrepreneurship and venture finance, as well as using twin studies to explore the genetic basis of entrepreneurial behaviors.
Go to ProfileS. Mark Young is a professor and writer focused on management accounting and control, particularly in relation to the entertainment industry. He was born in Sydney, Australia and attended Homebush Primary and High Schools. After he and his family moved to the United States, he graduated from Thomas Worthington High School. He holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Oberlin College, a Master's of Accounting degree from The Ohio State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Jamie Dimon
1956 - Present (68 years)
James Dimon is an American billionaire business executive and banker, who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase since 2005. He was previously on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dimon was included in Time magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people. Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion as of June 2023. He serves on the board of directors of several non-profit institutions; including the Business Roundtable, the Bank Policy Institute, and the Harvard Business School. In the past he...
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Prem Sikka, Baron Sikka
1951 - Present (73 years)
Prem Nath Sikka, Baron Sikka is a British-Indian accountant and academic. He holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex.
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Richard Boyatzis
1946 - Present (78 years)
Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis is a Greek-American organizational theorist and Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, Adjunct Professor in People/Organizations at ESADE, as well as HR Horvitz Professor of Family Business. He is considered an expert in the field of emotional intelligence, behavior change, and competence.
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Hunter Lovins
1950 - Present (74 years)
L. Hunter Lovins is an American environmentalist, author, sustainable development proponent, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, and president of the nonprofit organization Natural Capitalism Solutions.
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John W. Pratt
1931 - Present (93 years)
John Winsor Pratt is Emeritus William Ziegler professor business administration at Harvard University. His former education was conducted at Princeton University and Stanford University, where he specialized in mathematics and statistics. Pratt spent most of his academic career at Harvard University. He was an editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1965 to 1970. His researches on risk aversion, risk sharing incentives, and the nature and discovery of stochastic laws, statistical relationships that describe the effects of decisions. He has made contributions to rese...
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Wynne Chin
1960 - Present (64 years)
Wynne W. Chin is C. T. Bauer Professor of Decision and information Sciences at the University of Houston . Wynne is the second most cited researcher in his college and in the top ten in his university. He received his Ph.D. In Computers and Information System and an MBA from the University of Michigan, an MS in chemical and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, and an AB in biophysics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley. Before joining the University of Houston faculty in 1997, Wynne taught at the University of Calgary and Wayne State University. In addition, he holds v...
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Yoshiko Shirata
1952 - Present (72 years)
"Cindy" Yoshiko Shirata is a Japanese accounting scholar who specialized in corporate bankruptcy prediction. She is best known for her SAF2002 bankruptcy prediction model. Her bankruptcy prediction model has been used by major banks and rating companies in Japan. She is considered one of the most well-known experts to develop bankruptcy prediction models in Japan.
Go to ProfileThomas Jeanjean is a French accounting academic. Former president of the French Accounting Association. Thomas Jeanjean was the dean for executive education at ESSEC Business School. As of 2021, he is the Chief Education Officer at the Paris Île-de-France Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Go to ProfileGerard "Gerry" George is currently Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Previously, he was Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University.
Go to ProfileAlex Malley, is an Australian accountant and business executive who is currently the CEO of the Australian Chiropractors Association since 2022, and the former chief executive of CPA Australia from 2009 to 2017. He was removed by the CPA board of directors in late June 2017 after months of controversy regarding his salary and the use of CPA funds for self-promotion of his book and TV program.
Go to ProfileAlnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the South Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science . He is former Head of the Department of Accounting and the Founding Director of LSE Entrepreneurship. Bhimani's academic work covers financial management and digitalisation; managerial accounting and strategic finance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; and global development and governance issues.
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Shyam Sunder
1944 - Present (80 years)
Shyam Sunder is an accounting theorist and experimental economist. He is the James L. Frank Professor of accounting, economics, and finance at the Yale School of Management; a professor in Yale University’s Department of Economics; and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.
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