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Richard Beckhard (1918–1999) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor at MIT, and researcher in the field of organization development. Beckhard co-launched the Addison-Wesley Organization Development Series and began the Organization Development Network in 1967. [ 1 ]
Notable Centre books include Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies, [7] Resistance through Rituals, [8] The Empire Strikes Back, [9] Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality. [10] The history of this development can be found in the series of stencilled occasional papers the Centre published between 1973 and 1988. [11]
Warren Gamaliel Bennis (March 8, 1925 – July 31, 2014) was an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute ...
Later, an independent American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded, [22] which published a fifty-volume set of books called The American School Library. [23] Henry David Thoreau cites the Society in his essay "Walking" in which he jestingly proposes a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance.
Herbert Allen Shepard (1919–1985) was a Canadian-born American organization behaviorist and economist who made a significant contribution to Organization ...
Richard was awarded a 2013 Silver Rose Award from Solidar for championing equality and the 2014 Charles Cully Memorial Medal by the Irish Cancer Society. He is best known for his book with Kate Pickett The Spirit Level, first published in 2009, which argues that societies with more equal distribution of incomes have better health, fewer social ...
Network Nation won the Ralph Gomory Book Prize from the Business History Conference in 2011 and the 2011 Best Book Prize from the American Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) History Division. [8] [9] [10] According to political scientist Christopher Parsons, in John's Network Nation (2010), the historian "has carefully ...
Richard Graham (born 1934 in Goiás, Brazil) is a Brazilian/American historian specializing in nineteenth-century Brazil. He was formerly Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is now professor emeritus there.