Obituary: Abraham Zaleznik, Longtime Lexington Resident and Harvard Business School Professor, Dead at 87
A pioneer in the study of workplace techniques, Zaleznik drew distinction between leaders and managers as he sought to understand internal forces driving motivating people in the workplace.
The following obituary was provided by the Harvard Business School. Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, a renowned authority on leadership and social psychology, died in Boston on Monday, Nov. 28, at the age of 87. At the time of his death, he was the School's Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. As a member of the Harvard Business School faculty for more than four decades, Zaleznik made important and lasting contributions as an innovative, prolific, and distinguished scholar, researcher, teacher, course developer, and author of 16 books and more than 40 articles. Eager to gain a deeper understanding of the internal forces motivating people in the workplace, during the 1960s, he combined has duties as an …
