Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

Named individuals who founded or led a company, or who developed the theories managers use to run one: company founders and chief executives grouped as Founders and Executives, and the scholars and consultants who built management's own body of theory grouped as Management Theorists. A figure belongs here when the enterprise itself is the subject, whether as the person who built or ran it or the person who wrote the theory managers apply to it. Excludes: the company a founder or executive built, catalogued under Companies and Brands and linked back to its founder rather than repeated here; the named theory or framework a management theorist is remembered for, catalogued under Management Theories under its own name; and a figure whose primary significance is as a macroeconomic actor or theorist rather than a company-level or management-level one, which Economics catalogues, cross-linked by a same-as edge where a founding industrialist is genuinely both.