The Wallace Clark Award or Wallace Clark Medal is a former management award for Distinguished Contribution to

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, named after Henry Wallace Clark (1880-1948). The Wallace Clark Award was established in 1949 and was sponsored by the

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(AMA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Association for Consulting Management Engineers and the Society for the Advancement of Management. The first Wallace Clark Medal was in 1948 awarded in the Swiss Hugo de Haan, who was in those days executive secretary of Comite International de l'Organisation Scientifique (CIOS). This organization was dedicated to the promotion of scientific management worldwide, and was founded in the first International Management Congress at Prague in 1924.

Award winners

* 1949. Hugo de Haan Daniel A. Wren. "Implementing the Gantt chart in Europe and Britain: the contributions of Wallace Clark." Journal of Management History 21.3 (2015): 309-327. * 1950. Theodore Limperg * 1951. Lillian Gilbreth * 1953. Erwin H. Schell * 1954.

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* 1955.

Lyndall Urwick Lyndall Fownes Urwick (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management admi ...

* 1957. Walter Scott * 1958. Harold F. Smiddy * 1960. Berend Willem Berenschot * 1963.

Peter Drucker Peter Ferdinand Drucker (; ; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business co ...

* 1965. Phil Carroll * 1966. K. S. Basu * 1967.

Joseph M. Juran Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer and management consultant. He was an evangelist for quality and quality management, having written several books on those subjects. He was the brot ...

* 1968. Gerrit van der Wal * 1969. Dwayne OrtonDwayne Orton (March 6, 1903 — November 22, 1971) wans a Canadian educator and editor.

References

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