James M. MacLachlan

Professor James M. MacLachlan, a native of Geneva, Ill., graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and held an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley. His technique of time compression first came into wide use in the early 1980s. He joined Rensselaer School of Management in 1981. He died of lymphoma in 1991.