Igor Ansoff

American economist Igor AnsoffИгорь АнсовBorn(1918-12-12)December 12, 1918Vladivostok, RussiaDiedJuly 14, 2002(2002-07-14) (aged 83)San Diego, California, USAKnown forAnsoff MatrixAcademic backgroundEducationStevens Institute of Technology (B.E., M.E.)Brown University (Ph.D.)Academic workInstitutionsCarnegie Mellon UniversityVanderbilt University Igor Ansoff (Russian: Игорь Ансов; 12 December 1918 – 14 July 2002) was a Russian-American applied mathematician and business manager. He is known as the father of strategic management. Biography Early life Igor Ansoff (ne Shugarman) was born in Vladivostok, Russia, on December 12, 1918. His father Schmuel Wolchover was born in 1884 to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire Karl and Roza Wolchover, who settled in Evansville, Indiana. He moved to Moscow to work in the U.S. Embassy and changes his name to Boris-Sam Shugarman; he had two daughters in his first marriage to Faina Shugarman (nee Levi), Mary (1908) and Victoria (1910). After the divorce, he married Eva Shugarman (nee Vagin), their only son Harry Igor was born in 1918 in Vladivostok. At the time of Igor's birth, his father Boris-Sam Shugarman,