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William Halal
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Interview
Biography
William Halal (http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~halal/)
studied engineering, business and economics and the social sciences at Purdue and
Berkeley.
He has held positions as an Air Force officer, aerospace engineer and business manager. He
is currently professor of Management at George Washington University.
An authority on emerging technologies, strategic management and institutional change, he
has consulted for General Motors, IBM, AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and International
Data Corporation, as well as several foreign companies and governments.
He serves on the advisory boards of the World Future Society and several
journals. Professor Halal’s work has received prominent recognition. His paper Beyond
the Profit-Motive won the 1977 Mitchell Prize and in 1985 he was awarded the George
Washington Honor Medal by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for excellence in the
study of enterprise.
Prof. Halal’s publications have appeared in journals such as The California
Management Review, Business in the Contemporary World, The Academy of Management
Executive, Human Relations, Systems&Cybernetics, Technological Forecasting, The New
York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Advertising Age, The New Portable MBA,
The Futurist.
He is the author of five books: The New Capitalism (1986) outlined the new system
of business and economics for the Information Age; Internal Markets (1993)
describes how dynamic organisations are replacing hierarchy with market economies; The
New Management (1996) shows that democracy and enterprise are transforming
organisations; The Infinite Resource includes chapters by Ray Smith, Jerry
Taylor, Steve Goldsmith and a dozen other executives; 21st Century Economics, is
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