Henry Mintzberg OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and author on business and management.

Henry Mintzberg completed his first undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at McGill University in 1961.

He successfully defended his thesis of "The Manager at Work—Determining his Activities, Roles and Programs by Structured Observation" and studied the fields of Policy (major), Organizational Studies, Information and Control Systems, and minor in Political Science.

[3] Henry Mintzberg likes to write short stories about his personal life experiences and wants to publish them one day.

[6] Mintzberg writes on the topics of management and business strategy, with more than 150 articles and fifteen books to his name.

[non-primary source needed] With Phil LeNir, he owns Coaching Ourselves International, a private company using his alternative approach for management development directly in the workplace.

[3] The organizational configurations framework of Mintzberg is a model that describes six valid organizational configurations (originally only five; the sixth one was added later):[8] Regarding the coordination between different tasks, Mintzberg defines the following mechanisms:[8] According to the organizational configurations model of Mintzberg, each organization can consist of a maximum of six basic parts:[8] Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Mintzberg's research findings and writing on business strategy, is that they have often emphasized the importance of emergent strategy, which arises informally at any level in an organisation, as an alternative or a complement to deliberate strategy, which is determined consciously either by top management or with the acquiescence of top management.