Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) or (DrBA) is a terminal degree in business administration. The DBA is classified as a research doctorate or professional doctorate depending on the granting university and country where the degree was awarded. Academically, the DBA is awarded based on advanced study, examinations, project work, and advanced research in the field of business administration.
The Canadian Historical Association is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. It is a bilingual, not-for-profit, charitable organization, the largest of its kind in Canada. According to the Association, it "seeks to encourage the integration of historical knowledge and perspectives in both the scholarly and public spheres, to ensure the accessibility of historical resources, and to defend the rights and freedoms of emerging and professional historians in the pursuit of historical inquiry as well as those of history degree holders who utilize the analytical, research, communication, and writing skills they acquired during their studies to pursue a variety of career paths inside or outside of academia."
Alliance Manchester Business School is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. It is one of the oldest business schools in the UK, and provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives.
Laws Stores was a grocery store business that expanded across the North East of England and Southern Scotland, before moving into the burgeoning supermarket trade. It was purchased by Scottish grocery chain W M Low in 1985 as part of their expansion plans.
Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with his Stanford colleague and former student Paul R. Milgrom, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". Two more of his students, Alvin E. Roth and Bengt Holmström, are also Nobel Laureates in their own right.
David Clarence McClelland was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. McClelland is credited with developing Achievement Motivation Theory, commonly referred to as "need for achievement" or n-achievement theory. A Review of General Psychology survey published in 2002, ranked McClelland as the 15th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Mark Roscoe Ashurst-McGee is an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and editor for the Joseph Smith Papers project.
Barry Morton Gough is a global maritime and naval historian.
Wolter Joseph Fabrycky is an American systems engineer, Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, and Principal of Academic Applications International.
Deborah H. Gruenfeld is an American social psychologist whose work examines the way people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. She is the author of numerous papers on the psychology of power and group behavior. She is the Joseph McDonald Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is also a co-director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at the same institution, and is a board member of Stanford’s Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership. She was the inaugural chairholder of the Moghadam Family Professorship in 2008. She is a board member of the LeanIn Foundation.
Howard E. Aldrich is an American sociologist who is Kenan Professor of Sociology and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Taylor Key Award is one of the highest awards of the Society for Advancement of Management. This management awards is awarded annually to one or more persons for "the outstanding contribution to the advancement of the art and science of management as conceived by Frederick W. Taylor."
Simon Cleveland is an American scholar-practitioner, associate professor of the practice, and faculty director at Georgetown University. He is the former executive director and associate dean for The Technology Institute at the City University of Seattle. Cleveland is a graduate of George Mason University and The George Washington University. While a doctoral student, Cleveland was the three-time recipient of the Dr. Harold Kerzner Scholarship. In 2014, he earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University. His dissertation was titled "A Causal Model to Predict Organizational Knowledge Sharing via Information and Communication Technologies". He also holds certificates in education, analytics, and big data from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2017, Cleveland earned the Tropaia Award: Outstanding Faculty for his work with the Master of Professional Studies in Project Management at Georgetown University.
Boon Thau Loo is a Singaporean-American computer scientist, college administrator, and technology entrepreneur. He is currently the RCA professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania where he leads a research lab working on distributed systems, and serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Nina Irene McClelland was an American chemist. She was dean emeritus and professor of chemistry at the University of Toledo.
Donald S. Siegel is an American economist and academic administrator. He is Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.
Corey Phelps is an American business educator and author. He currently serves as the Dean of the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma and a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship.
Leanne Carolyn Pitchford is a retired physicist known for her work on the numerical modeling of low-temperature plasma, and in the LXCat project for open exchange of low-temperature plasma data. Educated in the US, she worked in France as a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie (Laplace) at the University of Toulouse.
Professor Grigor McClelland CBE MBA CBIM Hons.DCL was a British businessman, academic and social activist. Born into the family of grocers, he managed his family firm of Laws Stores from 1948 to 1962, and again between 1978 to 1984. He became the first senior research fellow in Management Studies at the University of Oxford with Balliol College in 1962. During his time there he founded both the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. In 1965, he became the first director of the newly formed Manchester Business School, and wrote various papers on management techniques and ideas.
