Name Michael Hammer | Role Engineer | |
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Died September 3, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Books Reengineering the Corporation, The Agenda: What Eve, Faster Cheaper Better: Th, Beyond reengineering, The Reengineering Revolutio | ||
Michael Martin Hammer (13 April 1948 – 3 Sept 2008) was an American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).
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Early life and education
Hammer, the child of Holocaust survivors, grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. He earned BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, 1970, and 1973 respectively. [1]
Career
An engineer by training, Hammer was the proponent of a process-oriented view of business management. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the department of Computer Science and a lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management. Articles written by Hammer have been published in business periodicals, such as the Harvard Business Review and The Economist.
TIME named him as one of America's 25 most influential individuals, in its first such list. Forbes magazine ranked Hammer's book, Reengineering the Corporation, among the "three most important business books of the past 20 years".
Personal life
He and his wife, Phyllis Thurm Hammer, lived in Newton, Massachusetts with their four children, Jessica, Allison, Dana, and David.
Death
Hammer died suddenly from complications of a brain hemorrhage he suffered while on vacation, and he is buried in the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in Boston.