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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R. Statistical and mathematical insights were imported (often from military uses) forming the basis of the field that would subsequently be known as operations management. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.”