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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. Townes, and Henry L. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era. His book Concept of the Corporation , published in 1946, was a direct response to Alfred P.