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The Academy of Management, the world's leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations, has announced that William B. Wolf, professor emeritus of human resource studies, has been awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award. The award is one of the highest honors the academy can bestow. Wolf's award stems from his service to the academy as well as his contributions to the development of the profession of "management." Wolf's major interests are the general theory of management, international management and the history of management thought. At Cornell in the 1970s, he organized and taught the first School of Industrial and Labor Relations course dealing with organization development consulting. In the late 1970s, he began to devote most of his time to the development of the area of top management human resource strategy. He systematically began to build a network between the ILR School and senior human resources executives in major U.S. corporations. Wolf is internationally known as an authority on the life and work of James Oscar McKinsey, founder of McKinsey Co. Inc., which is one of the world's premier management consulting firms. Wolf also is known as a major authority on the work of Chester I. Barnard, the premier management theorist of the 20th century.