Peter Pyhrr

Peter Pyhrr (born c.1942) is an American business writer. He was a manager at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, who developed the idea of zero-based budgeting (ZBB). He used ZBB successfully at Texas Instruments in the 1960s and authored an influential 1970 article in Harvard Business Review . In 1973, President Jimmy Carter, while governor of Georgia, contracted with Pyhrr to implement a ZBB system for the State of Georgia executive budget process. ^[1]

Called 'the father of Zero-Based Budgeting', he reportedly "sent an article about the technique to Harvard Business Review and was surprised when they ran it — and even more surprised when he got a call from a staffer for Jimmy Carter, then Democratic governor of Georgia." ^[2]

Pyhrr was age 27 when he developed ZBB at TI. ^[3]

References

1. "Zero-base Budgeting". The Economist . January 26, 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
2. "Meet the Father of Zero-Based Budgeting". The Wall Street Journal . March 26, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
3. "Yesterday Tl, Tomorrow the US?". D Magazine . October 1, 1976. Retrieved October 23, 2022.

Further reading

• Pyhrr, Peter A., "Zero-base Budgeting," Harvard Business Review , (November-December 1970), p.111-121.