Francis J. Aguilar

Thinkers1932 to 2013Management scholar

Works

  • Scanning the Business Environment, 1967

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A Harvard Business School professor of general management and strategic planning. His study of how executives gather information about the world outside their companies is one of the earliest treatments of environmental scanning and is commonly credited as the origin of PEST analysis and its later variants.

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