Richard Michael Cyert was an American economist, statistician and organizational theorist, who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
10 Facts About Richard Cyert
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Richard Cyert is known for his seminal 1959 work "A Behavioral Theory of the Firm", co-authored with James G March.
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Richard Cyert was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in Minneapolis.
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Richard Cyert taught briefly at City College of New York, then took a position in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1948 to teach statistics in accounting and auditing.
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Richard Cyert was a big proponent of inter-disciplinary research and assigned offices to faculty from different departments to the same suite when the new building for GSIA was completed.
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Richard Cyert handled inherited deficits by first cutting costs, which gained him some enemies, and later launched the largest expansion in the school's 98-year history.
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Richard Cyert's administration initiated new program areas in urban and public policy, engineering, architecture, art, cognitive psychology, social history, philosophy, and applied math.
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Richard Cyert was the author or co-author of 12 books and wrote more than 100 articles for professional journals and books.
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Richard Cyert served for four years, until illness forced him to step down.
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For 52 years he was married to Margaret Shadick Richard Cyert; they had three daughters.