Ancient

Dated from 2720 BC is the oldest pyramid of Hellinikon (Greece), so ancient Egyptian pyramid builders probably used to use some principles of project management. Slave-owners faced the problems of exploiting/motivating a dependent but sometimes recalcitrant workforce , first leadership techniques.

5th 18th centuries 1770s Adam Smith microeconomic foundations of business, specialization of labour 1800s

1881 Joseph Wharton first tertiary-level college course and textbook in business management first decade of the 19th century Matthew Boulton work methods 1810s, 1820s Eli Whitney interchangeable parts, cost accounting 1810s James Watt standard operating procedures, cost control 1810s Robert Owen mutually beneficial personnel practices 1830s Charles Babbage early scientific approach 1840s analyses of Karl Marx and of Friedrich Engels 1850s Henry Poor the principles of organization 1850s Daniel McCallum organizational charts 1860s Frederick Law Olmsted 1860 describes machine-like operation of slavery as "management" 1880s Henry Metcalfe the science of administration 1890s 1930s Karol Adamiecki management 1890s Frederick Hallsey wage and compensation plans 1890s Henry R. Towne's Science of management,

19th century

Modern management as a discipline began as according to some as (i) an off-shoot of economics or to others as (ii) organizational practices associated with US slavery. theoretical background to resource allocation, production, and pricingprovided by Classical economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill technical production elements such as standardization, quality control procedures, cost accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work planning developed by innovators like Eli Whitney, James Watt, and Matthew Boulton middle of the 19th century human element with theories of worker training, motivation, organizational structure and span of control introduced on US slave plantations (e.g. Hammond 1847; Southern Cultivator, 1854); and with progressive aspirations by Robert Owen, Henry Poor, and M. Laughlin and others..

late 19th century a new layer of complexity to the theoretical underpinings of management introduced by marginal economists Alfred Marshall and Leon Walras and others ..

1900s

early 20th century Frank Gilbreth time and motion study Cheaper by the Dozen early 20th century Henry Gantt gantt charts, to track work progress easily for both workers and management early 20th century Frederick Winslow Taylor Scientific Management 1904 Joseph M. Juran Internal customer, quality trilogy 1909 Shigeo Shingo Zero Quality Control (Poka-Yoke) and Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)

1910s

1910s Henry L. Gantt's charts 1910s Henri Fayol the inter-relationships of the various parts of management 1910s William Henry Leffingwell National Office Management Association 1910s Ordwat Tead the psychology of industry 1910s F. Harris economic lot size model 1910s Hugo Musterberg the psychology of work 1910s Alexander Church functional management 1911 J. Duncan wrote the first college management text book 1911 J. Duncan the first college textbook in management 1911 Frederick Winslow Taylor's Scientific management 1912 Yoichi Ueno introduced Taylorism to Japan 19151989 Kaoru Ishikawa Total Quality Management (TQM), Ishikawa fishbone diagram 19162001 Herbert A. Simon "Satisficing", Nobel Prize 1978 1917 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth's Applied motion study

1920s

1920s 1930s Walter A. Shewhart Bell Labs control charts 1920s, 1930s Chester Barnard executive leadership 1920s Walter Dill Scott the psychology of personnel management 1920s H. Dodge statistical quality control procedures 1920s T. Fry statistical queuing theory 1920s Ronald Fisher statistical management 1920s Oliver Sheldon the philosophy of business

1920s Elton Mayo the sociology of business interactions 1924 Genichi Taguchi How product specification can become cost effective production

1930s

1930s, 1940s P. Blackett operations research 1930s Mary Follett group problem solving

1950s

1950s 2004 Russell L. Ackoff operations research and systems theory 1950s Ronald Coase transaction cost analysis, industrial and organizational economics [Nobel Prize in 1991] 1950s, 1960s W. Edwards Deming management, quality 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s Peter Drucker management theory, MBO 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, first decade of the 21st century Armand V. Feigenbaum Total Quality Control, "Quality is what the customer says it is", the "hidden" factory

1960s

1960s, 1970s, 1980s Philip Crosby quality control "Quality is Free" 1960s, 1970s David Ogilvy advertising 1960s, 1970s Theodore Levitt marketing 1960s, 1970s Henry Markovitz portfolio diversification

1970s

1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000 Kenneth D. Mackenzie Organizational Hologram, Organization Theories 1970s, 1980s, 1990s Chris Argyris learning systems 1970s, 1980s, 1990s Philip Kotler marketing management, marketing warfare 1970s, 1980s, 1990s Michael Porter SWOT analysis, strategic management, value chain, generic strategies, 5 forces 1970s, 1980s Yoram Wind strategic behavioural models 1970s, 1980s Kenichi Ohmae strategic thought processes 1970s, 1980s Tom Peters Excellence theories 1970s, 1980s Richard Waterman Excellence theories 1970s, 1980s B. Gale PIMS study on market share 1970s, 1980s E. Learned SWOT analysis 1970s, 1980s R. Buzzell PIMS study on market share 1970s, 1980s Mahajan strategic models

1970s, 1980s, 1990s, first decade of the 21st century Henry Mintzberg organizational behaviour, strategic management 1970s Merton Miller corporate finance 1970s Franco Modigliani corporate finance 1970s George Day marketing 1970s Oliver Williamson transaction cost analysis 1970s John Lintner finance 1970s Harold Deming quality control 1970s Laurence J. Peter the Peter Principle

1980s

1980s D. Aaker marketing strategy 1980s C. K. Prahalad core competency 1980s P. Ghemawat experience curve 1980s Al Reis positioning theory 1980s Derek Abell strategic windows 1980s Robert Camp benchmarking 1980s Jack Trout positioning theory 1980s Constantinos Markides strategy dynamics 1980s Eliyahu M. Goldratt theory of constraints, critical chain project management 1980s, 1990s Leo Melamed futures exchanges 1980s, 1990s Jay Barney resource based strategies 1980s, 1990s John Kotter leadership 1980s Jeffrey Pfeffer organizational development 1989 Stephen Covey's book 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'

1990s
Japanese quality methodologies introduced here by the late Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa, Dr. Masao Kogure, Dr. Yoji Akao, Dr. Noriaki Kano, Mr. Masaaki Imai, and many others.

1990s Michael Hammer reengineering 1990s Adrian Slywotzky value migration 1990s James Moncrieff strategy dynamics 1990s James Collins vision, mission, objectives and BHAG 1990s Gary Hamel core competencies, strategy as revolution 1990s Robert S. Kaplan balanced scorecard 1990s Keith Denton continuous improvement 1990s Patricia Seybold e-marketing, e-commerce, customer co-design 1990s Don E. Schultz integrated promotional strategy 1990s James Gilbert profit pools 1990s Regis McKenna real-time management 1990s J. Sheth business strategy

1990s Frederick F. Reichheld the loyalty effect 1990s Kenneth Andrews corporate values 1990s Fred Davis Technology acceptance model TAM

2000s

first decade of the 21st century Nicholas Negroponte human-computer interface

Still undated

James G. March Cognitive organization theory Frederick Hertzberg motivation theory David Garvin eight dimensions of quality August-Wilhelm Scheer ARIS Sumantra Ghoshal strategic leadership, book Individualised Corporation IDEF