Igor Ansoff

Harry Igor Ansoff ( born December 12, 1918 in Vladivostok, † July 14, 2002 in San Diego, California ) was an American mathematician and economist of Russian origin. He is considered the founder and namesake of strategic management.

Life

Igor Ansoff, born in 1918 right in the vortex of the October Revolution in Russia, nor migrated as a child with his family to the United States. He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York and completed his training as valedictorian from. After that, he studied general engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he was awarded for his work on the dynamics of rigid bodies the title of Master of Science.

Following this study is Ansoff wrote at Brown University in Providence, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics with emphasis Mathematical theories of elasticity and plasticity.

After a few years working for the Rand Corporation and the Lockheed Corporation changed Ansoff 1963 to the University. From 1963 to 1968 he was Professor of Industrial Administration at the Graduate School at Carnegie Mellon University, from 1968 to 1973 then as a professor of management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. From 1973 to 1975 lectured on Ansoff European Institute for Advanced Management Studies in Brussels, from 1973 to 1976 again at Vanderbilt University and finally at the Stockholm School of Economics ( 1976-1983 ). Ansoff ended his career at the U.S. International University in San Diego, where until 2000 he held a professorship in 1983.

Ansoff died in July 2002 at the age of 83 years from complications of pneumonia.

Works

• Management Strategy (English orig title " Corporate Strategy ". ); 1966; Verlag Moderne Industrie
• From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management; 1976; ISBN 0-471-03223-9
• Strategic Management; , 1979; ISBN 0-470-26585- X
• The New Corporate Strategy; 1988; ISBN 0-471-62950-2
• Implanting Strategic Management; 1990; ISBN 0-13-451881-0
• The Turbulence Concept; 1998; ISBN 0-471-97491-9