Lyman Porter

Lyman William Porter (c. 1930 – July 2, 2015) was an American academic administrator. He was the dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine from 1972 to 1983. He was the co-author of many books of management, and "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior." His father, Charles Lyman Porter, was a professor of biology at Purdue University.

Porter graduated from Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, and he received a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1956.

Porter was "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior," and he "played a major role in ensuring that organizational behavior would become an important component of modern business education." He retired from academia in 1992.

Personal life, death and legacy Porter married Meredith Anne; they had one son and a daughter. They resided in Newport Beach, California.

Porter died on July 2, 2015, in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 85. He is the namesake of the Dr. Lyman W. Porter Colloquium Room at UC Irvine.

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