# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-l-ackoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:17:24.244Z

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name: "Russell L. Ackoff"
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description: "Russell Lincoln Ackoff was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ackoff was a pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science."
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deathDate: "2009-10-29"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump