Michael Scott Morton

Michael S. Scott Morton (born 25 August 1937 in Mukden in Manchuria) is a business theorist, and is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management (Emeritus) at MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his contributions to Strategic information systems and benchmarking e-learning.

After starting engineering at the University of Glasgow, Scott Morton move to the United States and completed an undergraduate degree in 1961 at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Scott Morton started his academic career in 1966 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, initially in the fields of Accounting and Control Systems. He was founding director of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), serving as director from 1974 to 1976. From 1976 to 1981 he was Deputy Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, where later he was appointed Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management. From 1983 he was area head of the Strategy Group, and in 1992 he became area head for the Behavioral Policy Sciences (BPS) group at MIT Sloan.

Scott Morton co-founded three companies in the fields of Information and Control Systems and is active as an Angel investor.He has previously served on the boards of Index Systems Inc; Emhart Corporation; ICL Plc; Sequent Computer Systems; Genrad Corporation, and Merrill Corporation. He was a trustee of the State Street Research and Management Company funds and the Metropolitan Life Series Funds.

Scott Morton's early work formed the basis of what became known as Decision Support Systems: the use by managers of interactive computer systems to support their decision-making.

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