 Richard Cyert

Richard Michael Cyert (July 22, 1921 – October 7, 1998) was an American economist, statistician and organizational theorist, who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, known from his seminal 1959 work ""A behavioral theory of the firm"" co-authored with and James G. March.He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in Minneapolis.