The author team form the Lean Aerospace Initiative based at MIT and contain a number or outstanding academics and researchers including:
EARLL M. MURMAN is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Program Director of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
THOMAS J. ALLEN is Howard W Johnson Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-Director of the Lean Aerospace Initiative.
JOEL CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD is Executive Director, Engineering Systems Learning Center and Senior Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.