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Chris Argyris
American business theorist
Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013[1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School.
Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis,[citation needed] is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.
Biography
Argyris was born a twin—along with Thomas S.
Argyris (1923–2001)[2]—into a family of Greek immigrants to the United States in Newark, New Jersey. Argyris (pronounced AHR-JUR-ris) grew up in Irvington, New Jersey, and Athens, Greece.[3] In World War II he served in the U.S.
Army Signal Corps.[4] After his service he studied psychology at Clark University, where he met Kurt Lewin. He obtained his MA in 1947, and joined the University of Kansas, where he obtained his MSc in Psychology and Economics in 1949.
In 1951 received his PhD