Henry Mintzberg

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Professor Henry Mintzberg, OC , OQ , Ph.D. , D.h.c. , FRSC (born September 2, 1939) is an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968, after earning his Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) and Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Professor Mintzberg writes prolifically on the topics of management and business strategy, with more than 140 articles and thirteen books to his name. His seminal book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, criticizes some of the practices of strategic planning today and is considered required reading for anyone who seriously wants to consider taking on a strategy-making role within their organisation.

Professor Mintzberg has recently published a book entitled Managers Not MBAs which outlines what he believes to be wrong with management education today and, rather controversially, singles out prestigious graduate management schools like Harvard Business School and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania as examples of how obsession with numbers and an over-zealous attempt at making management into a science actually can damage the discipline of management. He also suggests that a new masters program, targeted at practising managers (as opposed to younger students with little real world experience), and emphasizing practical issues, may be more suitable.

Ironically, although Professor Mintzberg is quite critical about the strategy consulting business, he has twice won the McKinsey Award for publishing the best article in the Harvard Business Review.

In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1998 he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

He is married to Sasha Sadilova and has two children, Susie and Lisa.

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1973	The Nature of Managerial Work
1979	The Structuring of Organizations: A Synthesis of the Research
1983	Power In and Around Organizations
1983	Structure in 5's: Designing Effective Organizations
1989	Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations
1991	The Strategy Process: (with Joe Lampel, Sumantra Ghoshal and J.B. Quinn)
1994	The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving the Roles for Planning, Plans, Planners
1998	Strategy Safari (with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joe Lampel)
2000	Managing Publicly (with Jacques Bourgault)
2000	Why I Hate Flying
2004	Managers not MBAs
2005	Strategy Bites back