About Thomas J. Allen
Lived 1931 – 2020 (aged 88–89). Thomas J. Allen was an American management scientist and economist.
Thomas J. Allen (1931–2020) was the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the co-director of the MIT Leaders For Manufacturing program.
He was the creator of the Allen curve, an approach to measuring and modelling the performance of cross functional research and development teams. Allen died on November 13, 2020, aged 89.
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Who was Thomas J. Allen?
American organizational theorist
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Thomas J. Allen was born in 1931 in Newark.
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Thomas J. Allen died on 13 November 2020.
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Thomas J. Allen was a management scientist and economist.
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Thomas J. Allen was American.
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