Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg, OC, OQ, FRSC ( born September 2, 1939 in Canada ) is a Canadian Professor of Business Economics and Management.

Life

After an education in Mechanical Engineering ( B. Eng. , Industrial Engineering ) from McGill University ( Montreal ) 1961 Mintzberg worked for Canadian National Railways ( 1961-1963 ). Working, he continued to study and made 1962 another Bachelor in General Arts ( Sir George Williams University), his Master of Science received Mintzberg 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in management. His doctoral studies, he graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management and presented his doctoral thesis The Manager at Work - Determining his Activities, Roles and Programs by Structured Observation 1968.

He accepted a professorship at McGill University and taught intermittently on there. Professorships and visiting professorships held Mintzberg at INSEAD ( visiting professor, 1991-1999 ), the London Business School ( 1990-1991), the École des hautes études commerciales ( Montreal, 1977-1978), Carnegie Mellon University ( 1973). 1974-1976 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Aix -Marseille. It was here that his most important claims to work Structuring of Organizations: A synthesis of research. Mintzberg was the first director of the joint doctoral program of four Montreal universities ( 1976-1978 ).

He is married to Sasha Sadilova. They have two children, Susie and Lisa.

Working

Mintzberg has more than 140 articles and ten books on management and strategy written. According to his own statements while his goal was a teachable subject " Management Policy " display. While he pursued this goal, Mintzberg has written substantial work for the subject strategy, organization theory and general management.

His work on organizational structures ( Structuring of Organizations: A synthesis of research) is considered together with a work of his pupil and colleague Danny Miller as one of the most cited publications on the subject. In The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, he criticizes planning departments and methods as unfit because they focus on content strategy, instead of explaining how strategy is formed. The book is a standard work of teaching strategy.

In addition to his work on the subject of management training Mintzberg published a critique of the teaching at the universities, where he vehemently argues against the typical full-time MBA programs ( Managers Not MBAs ). Likewise, he speaks openly against certain business practices of airlines and airports ( Why I hate flying ).

Awards

Mintzberg has been honored frequently and with high honors. For his services to education in Canada 1998 when he was an Officer of the Order of Canada and in the same year Officier de l'Ordre national du Québec. Mintzberg has been twice for the best article of the year, the Harvard Business Review won (1975 ) the McKinsey Award. He also wears honorary doctorates from the universities Montreal, Concordia, Memorial, McMaster, Simon Fraser, The New School, Lund, Lancaster, Ghent, Liege, Paris -Dauphine, Geneva, Lausanne, Venice, and ESADE

Works

  • Managing, San Francisco ( CA) 2009 ISBN 1576753409
  • Manager instead of MBAs - a critical analysis, Frankfurt am Main [ua ] 2005 ISBN 3-593-37681-4
  • Strategy Safari - a journey through the wilds of strategic management, Vienna [ua ] 1999 ISBN 3-7064-0523-7
  • Strategic planning - rise, decline and redefinition, Munich, Vienna 1995 ISBN 0-13-781824-6
  • The Mintzberg structure - We make organizations more effective, Landsberg am Lech, 1992 ISBN 3-478-31470-4
  • The nature of managerial work, New York NY 1973 ISBN 0-06-044556-4
  • The manager 's job: folklore and fact, Harvard Business Review, July - August 1975
  • The structuring of organizational, Englewood Cliffs NJ 1979
  • ? Organizational structure: fashionable or suitable, Harvard Manager 4/Heft 2-1982
  • Patterns in Strategy Formation, Management Science, 1978 Vol 24, pp. 934-48.
  • The Structuring of Organisations 1979, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead / Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
  • Crafting Strategy in 1987; Harvard Business Review, July - August, pp. 65-75
  • The design school: Reconsidering the basic premises of strategic management, IEEE Engineering Management Review, 1990 vol 19, no. 3, pp. 85-112
  • The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, 1994 Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hempstead

In other published works:

  • Mintzberg, H.and McHugh A. 1985 Strategy formation in adhocracy, Administrative Science Quarterly.
  • Mintzberg, H. Otis, S. Shamsie, J. and Waters JA 1986 Strategy of design: a study of " architects in co - partnership", in J. Grant (ed. ) Strategic Management Frontiers, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.
  • Mintzberg H. and Quinn, J. B. 1991; The Strategy Process, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead
  • Mintzberg H., Quinn, J. B. and Ghoshal, S., 1995; The Strategy Process, Prentice- Hall, Hemel Hempstead
  • Mintzberg H., J. A. Waters 1982; Tracking strategy in on entrepreneurial firm, Academy of Management Journal, pp. 465-99
  • Mintzberg H., J. A. Waters 1984; Researching the formation of strategies: the history of the Canadian Lady, 1939-1976 in Lamb, R. ( ed.) Competitive Strategic Management, Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
  • Mintzberg H., J. A. Waters 1985; Of strategies, deliberate and emergent, Strategic Management Journal, Vol 6, pp. 257-272
  • Mintzberg H., Ahlstrand B., Lampel J. 1999, Strategy Safari: a guided tour through the wilds of strategic management, The Freee Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., New York
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