Michael Hammer
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Michael Charles Hammer is one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).
CareerAn engineer by training, he is the proponent of a process oriented view of business management. He earned BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, 1970, and 1973 respectively. [1] He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the department of Computer science and lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has published in important business periodicals such as the Harvard Business Review and The Economist. Re-engineering the corporationRe-engineering the corporation: A manifesto for business revolution, the book written by him in 1993 along with James A. Champy was instrumental in capturing the focus of business community towards BPR. 2.5 million copies of the book were sold and the book remained on the "New York Times Best Seller list" for more than a year. AccoladesTIME named him as one of America's 25 most influential individuals, in its first such list.[citation needed] Re-engineering the corporation was ranked among the "three most important business books of the past 20 years" by Forbes magazine.[citation needed] The book was ghost written by Donna Sammons Carpenter. References
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