Finance
NICOLE ORESME
Nicole Oresme
Mathematics is not enough:
there must also be financial management
LUCA PACIOLI
Luca Pacioli
Double entry book keeping:
balance the outgoings before the income
ADAM SMITH
Adam Smith
Economist, organizational development, specialization and division of labour: divide tasks up correctly, and they are done more quickly, and more enjoyably
ELI WHITNEY
Eli Whitney
Removes seeds from cotton interchangeable parts; cost accounting; American system of manufacturing; assembly line: turn the boring, tedious jobs into set routine machine tasks
JAMES WATTS
James Watts
Standard operating procedures
cost accounting
originator of the concept of horsepower
Jean Baptiste Say
Jean Baptiste Say
Laissez-faire
Bought together factors of production, begins analysis of what makes an Entrepreneur
VILFREDO PARETO
Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist
80/20 theory: that 80% of money is owned by 20% of the people; now also applied to tasks, and clients: 20% of the clients bring in 80% of the income, and 80% 0f time should go to 20% of the clients
WALTER RATHENAU
Walter Rathenau
German Economist, assassinated 1922
“The New Economy” advocates that employees should take a greater role in the management
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
John Maynard Keynes
Economist, logical-relationist school, Wicksellian theory (Interest rates & bank rates control cash flows), Employment theory
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Joseph Schumpeter
Economist:
Business Cycle Theory;
identify how the business cycle works, the highs and the lows
E FRITZ SCHUMACHER
E Fritz Schumacher
Small is beautiful
Argued that large organizations needed to support competition rather than eliminate it in order to be healthy
GEORGE BOX
George Box
Statistical guru
Time Series Analysis Self-taught during WWII Using imaginative solutions to statistics for business
JAY SCHUSTER
Jay Schuster
Pay and Reward specialist
Linking performance and benchmarking to pay and rewards
LESTER C THUROW
Lester C Thurow
Economist: advocates wealth as a global goal