Michael Martin Hammer
Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – Sept 3, 2008) was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Hammer was a Jewish-American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hammer and James A. Champy founded the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).[1] In which, they wrote "Re-engineering the Corporation: Manifesto for Business Revolution" in 1993.
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Michael Martin Hammer
April 13, 1948
September 3, 2008 (aged 60)
Biography[edit]
Early life and education[edit]
Hammer and his wife, Phyllis Thurm Hammer, lived in Newton, Massachusetts with their four children, including Jessica.[1][2] Hammer attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology earning his bachelors degree in math in 1968. He earned his Master's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. Hammer decided to earn his doctorate in computer science in 1973.[3]
Career[edit]
Hammer started his career as a Professor of Computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Engineer by training, Hammer was the proponent of a process-oriented view of business management. After Hammer graduated from the institute, he worked in the department of Computer Science and as a lecturer's "assistant" in the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1987, he worked as a managing consultant; he taught theory and practice of how businesses do quality and non-quality work. This research is where he started to study how to re-engineer corporations/business processes. This inspired his international best seller, "Re-engineering the corporation".[3] Later on he launched the managing consulting firm Hammer and Company, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as the company's president, making it a research and business education firm.
He spent most of his time as a lecturer, consultant, and author. Articles written by Hammer have been published in the Harvard Business Review and The Economist. Some of his writings include: