"Although students of management would readily agree that there have been problems of management since the dawn of organized life, most would also agree that systematic examination of management, with few exceptions, is the product of the present century and more especially of the past two decades."
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Harold Koontz
(1909 - Febr. 11, 1984) was an American organizational theorist, Professor of Business Management at the and a consultant for many of America's largest business organizations. He co-authored the book Principles of Management with Cyril J. O'Donnell (1964).
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