The Wallace Clark Award or Wallace Clark Medal is a former management award for Distinguished Contribution to Scientific Management, named after Henry Wallace Clark (1880–1948). The Wallace Clark Award was established in 1949 and was sponsored by the American Management Association (AMA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Association for Consulting Management Engineers and the Society for the Advancement of Management.Advanced Management, 1957. p. 30.Charles M. Merrick, ASME Management Division history, 1886–1980. 1984. p. 161
The first Wallace Clark Medal was in 1948 awarded in the Swiss Hugo de Haan, who was in those days executive secretary of Comite International de l'Organisation Scientifique (CIOS).ASME. Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 77, 1955. p. 841 This organization was dedicated to the promotion of scientific management worldwide, and was founded in the first International Management Congress at Prague in 1924.Morgen Witzel. A History of Management Thought. 2016. p. 122
Award winners
1949. Hugo de HaanDaniel A. Wren. "Implementing the Gantt chart in Europe and Britain: the contributions of Wallace Clark." Journal of Management History 21.3 (2015): 309–327. 1950. Theodore LimpergASME. Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 72, 1950, p. 265 1951. Lillian GilbrethMichael C. Wood, John Cunningham Wood (2003). Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Critical Evaluations in Business and ... p. 175. 1953. Erwin H. Schell 1954. Harold Bright Maynard 1955. Lyndall UrwickEdward Brech, Andrew Thomson, John F. Wilson (2010), Lyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer: A Biography. p. 171 1957. Walter Scott"The Wallace Clark Award, co-sponsored by S.A.M. among several other U.S. Management Societies, was presented to WALTER SCOTT of Australia during the Congress." Source: Advanced Management, 1957. p. 30. 1958. Harold F. Smiddy 1960. Berend Willem Berenschot 1963. Peter DruckerPeter Drucker (2012). The Practice of Management. p. 144 1965. Phil CarrollWho was Phil Carroll – Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, at iise.org. Accessed 07-07-2017 1966. K. S. BasuK. S. Basu (1915 – 2000s) was Professor and Director of the Institute of Management Studies, University of Bombay, India. 1967. Joseph M. Juran 1968. Gerrit van der WalPacific Traffic, 1968. p. 48: For his serves as president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. 1969. Dwayne OrtonDwayne Orton (March 6, 1903 — November 22, 1971) wans a Canadian educator and editor.
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