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Ian Mitroff
Ian Irving Mitroff (June 2, 1938 – June 17, 2024) was an American organizational theorist, consultant and professor emeritus at the USC Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is noted for a wide range of contributions in the field of organizational theory including contributions on strategic planning assumptions and management information systems, to the subjective side of the workplace and spirituality, religion, and values. He died on June 17, 2024, at the age of 86, from blood cancer.
Ian Mitroff studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in engineering physics, a M.S. in structural mechanics (structural engineering), and a PhD in engineering science (industrial engineering) with the thesis entitled "A study of simulation-aided engineering design." In his PhD study he obtained a minor in the philosophy of social systems science under the direction of C. West Churchman.
Mitroff was professor emeritus from the University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He also had a joint appointment in the Annenberg School of Communication at USC.
He served as a senior research affiliate in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California Berkeley. He was also the president of the consulting firm Mitroff Crisis Management. Mitroff advised and influenced various academic, corporate, and government leaders in over twenty foreign countries.
Mitroff was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992–1993, he served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. In September 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctor's degree from the faculty of social sciences of Stockholm University. In September 2006, he was awarded a gold medal by the UK Systems Society for his lifelong contributions to systems thinking. In 2020, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the management, spirituality, and religion division of the Academy of Management.
He published 40 books and over 250 articles.
Mitroff was a member of editorial boards in several management and social science journals. He was also a frequent guest on national radio and TV talk shows, including the Window On Wall Street (CNN Financial News), the Dick Cavett Show (CNBC, New York), Late Night America (PBS TV), Marketplace (National Public Radio), and Business Unusual, (CNN Financial News).
Mitroff's teaching and research interests encompassed management of organizational crises, spirituality at work, and applied epistemology (complex problem solving). He published in the fields of business policy, Crisis management, Corporate culture, Contemporary media, Current events, foreign policy, Nuclear deterrence, Organizational change, Organizational psychology and psychiatry, Philosophy of science, Public policy, Sociology of science, Scientific method, Spirituality in the workplace and Strategic planning. Mitroff published over 300 articles and over 30 books.
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Ian Mitroff
Ian Irving Mitroff (June 2, 1938 – June 17, 2024) was an American organizational theorist, consultant and professor emeritus at the USC Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is noted for a wide range of contributions in the field of organizational theory including contributions on strategic planning assumptions and management information systems, to the subjective side of the workplace and spirituality, religion, and values. He died on June 17, 2024, at the age of 86, from blood cancer.
Ian Mitroff studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in engineering physics, a M.S. in structural mechanics (structural engineering), and a PhD in engineering science (industrial engineering) with the thesis entitled "A study of simulation-aided engineering design." In his PhD study he obtained a minor in the philosophy of social systems science under the direction of C. West Churchman.
Mitroff was professor emeritus from the University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He also had a joint appointment in the Annenberg School of Communication at USC.
He served as a senior research affiliate in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California Berkeley. He was also the president of the consulting firm Mitroff Crisis Management. Mitroff advised and influenced various academic, corporate, and government leaders in over twenty foreign countries.
Mitroff was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992–1993, he served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. In September 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctor's degree from the faculty of social sciences of Stockholm University. In September 2006, he was awarded a gold medal by the UK Systems Society for his lifelong contributions to systems thinking. In 2020, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the management, spirituality, and religion division of the Academy of Management.
He published 40 books and over 250 articles.
Mitroff was a member of editorial boards in several management and social science journals. He was also a frequent guest on national radio and TV talk shows, including the Window On Wall Street (CNN Financial News), the Dick Cavett Show (CNBC, New York), Late Night America (PBS TV), Marketplace (National Public Radio), and Business Unusual, (CNN Financial News).
Mitroff's teaching and research interests encompassed management of organizational crises, spirituality at work, and applied epistemology (complex problem solving). He published in the fields of business policy, Crisis management, Corporate culture, Contemporary media, Current events, foreign policy, Nuclear deterrence, Organizational change, Organizational psychology and psychiatry, Philosophy of science, Public policy, Sociology of science, Scientific method, Spirituality in the workplace and Strategic planning. Mitroff published over 300 articles and over 30 books.