Capitalist Philosophers : The Geniuses Of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, And Ideas - 00 edition

Gabor, Andrea : Baruch College/CUNY

Andrea Gabor is the author of The Man Who Discovered Quality and Einstein's Wife. She has been a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and a staff editor in corporate strategy and technology at Business Week. Gabor has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and is currently a professor at Baruch College/CUNY. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

A ''sweeping account of management in the 20th century.''

--Publishers Weekly

''An illuminating look behind the scenes at the people who shaped modern management and gave us the corporation we know and love--or know and reject--today. Andrea Gabor's engrossing stories of yesterday's big thinkers provide essential insights for tomorrow's business leaders, helping them find enduring truths in all passing fads and fancies.''

--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of World Class and Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management

''Andrea Gabor has mined the lives and times of a dozen seminal figures--from Deming and Drucker to Maslow and McNamara--who have constructed our concepts of corporate management and capitalist enterprise. Through brilliant portraits of their personal lives and professional ideas, Gabor has created a compelling account of how these capitalist philosophers have not only interpreted reality but also managed to define it.''

--Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment

''The well-balanced portraits examine the personal and intellectual developments of the capitalist philosophers and show how these thinkers affected big companies for good and bad. . . . [Andrea Gabor] has a good eye for the revealing details that both guided and limited her thinkers' ideas.''

--Harvard Business Review

''A thoughtful and important history of seminal thinkers who shaped--and continue to shape--the theory and practice of management.''

--Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and co-author of Co-Leaders

Random House Inc. Web Site, March, 2001