Biography
Hammer, the child of Holocaust survivors, grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. He and his wife, Phyllis Thurm Hammer, lived in Newton, Massachusetts with their four children, Jessica, Allison, Dana, and David.
An engineer by training, he was the proponent of a process oriented view of business management. He earned BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, 1970, and 1973 respectively. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the department of Computer science and lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He published in important business periodicals such as the Harvard Business Review and The Economist.
TIME named him as one of America's 25 most influential individuals, in its first such list. Reengineering the Corporation was ranked among the "three most important business books of the past 20 years" by Forbes magazine. The book was edited by Donna Sammons Carpenter.
Hammer is buried in the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in Boston.
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