contingent strategic success paradigm, a concept that has been validated by numerous doctoral dissertations; Real-time strategic management. Marketing and MBA students are usually familiar with his Ansoff Matrix, a tool he created to plot generic strategies for growing a business, via existing or new products, in existing or new markets. He has consulted with hundreds of multinational corporations including, Philips, General Electric, Gulf, IBM, Sterling Airlines and Westinghouse. To honor his body of work, the prestigious Igor Ansoff Award was established in 1981 in the Netherlands. The award is given for research and management in the study of Strategic Planning and Management. The Japan Strategic Management Society has also established an annual award in his name and Vanderbilt University has established an Ansoff MBA scholarship. He was awarded five honorary doctorate degrees over the years. Igor retired from USIU two years before his death as a distinguished professor emeritus. Death He died of complications from pneumonia in San Diego, California, on July 14, 2002. Survivors of his death included his wife; three sons, Rick, Chris, and Peter; and two grandchildren. Works The New Corporate Strategy (1988) Implanting Strategic Management (1984, second edition 1990) Strategic Management (1979) Acquisition Behavior of U.S. Manufacturing Firms, 1946-1965 (1971) Business Strategy: Selected Readings (1969) Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion (1965) References 1918 births 2002 deaths People from Moscow Soviet emigrants to the United States American people of Russian descent Economists from New York (state) 20th-century American mathematicians Brown University alumni Stevens Institute of Technology alumni Stuyvesant High School alumni Alliant International University Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics Deaths from pneumonia in California Mathematicians from New York (state) 20th-century American economists RAND Corporation people