Interment will follow at the Shaarei Tefillah Section of the Chevra ShaasÂ Cemetery at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in West Roxbury.Ī version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on Septem(download PDF). 5 in StanetskyÂ Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon St., Brookline. I approach all business issues and practices with the same skepticism: Why?'Ī funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. 'My modus operandi is simple,' he once wrote, 'though not always easy to carry out.

Hammer's relentless pursuit of 'why?' drove his entire career. SeptemMichael Hammer, a research affiliate with MIT's Engineering Systems Division who also previously taught as a professor of computer science and was a lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management, died Wednesday after collapsing from apparent cranial bleeding last month. An engineer by training, Hammer focused on the operational nuts and bolts of business. 3.48 124 Used from 0.17 6 New from 3.48 4 Collectible from 5.45. Hammer was also named by Time magazine to its first list of America's 25 most influential individuals. In 1987, he began working full-time as a management consultant, an endeavor he characterized as 'research and teaching the theory and practice of why and how enterprises do (and don't do) good work.' It was this work that informed and inspired the international best seller 'Reengineering the Corporation,' which he co-wrote with James Champy. He was the associate director for the Laboratory for Computer Science, one of the precursors to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Hammer received an SB (1968), SM (1970) and PhD (1973) from MIT and was the president of Hammer and Company, a business education and research firm focused on cutting-edge issues in operations, organization and management.Īfter graduating from the Institute, he became an assistant, then associate, professor of computer science at MIT. Michael Hammer, a research affiliate with MIT's Engineering Systems Division who also previously taught as a professor of computer science and was a lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management, died Wednesday after collapsing from apparent cranial bleeding last month.

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