# Peter Pyhrr

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'''Peter Pyhrr''' (born c.1942) is an American business writer. He was a manager at [Texas Instruments](/source/Texas_Instruments) in [Dallas, Texas](/source/Dallas%2C_Texas), who developed the idea of [zero-based budgeting](/source/zero-based_budgeting) (ZBB). He used ZBB successfully at Texas Instruments in the 1960s and authored an influential 1970 article in ''[Harvard Business Review](/source/Harvard_Business_Review)''. In 1973, President [Jimmy Carter](/source/Jimmy_Carter), while governor of [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)), contracted with Pyhrr to implement a ZBB system for the [State of Georgia](/source/State_of_Georgia) executive budget process.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/2009/01/26/zero-base-budgeting |title=Zero-base Budgeting |work=[The Economist](/source/The_Economist) |date=January 26, 2009 |access-date=December 26, 2015}}</ref>

Called 'the father of Zero-Based Budgeting', he reportedly "sent an article about the technique to ''Harvard Business Review'' and was surprised when they ran it — and even more surprised when he got a call from a staffer for Jimmy Carter, then [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) governor of Georgia."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-father-of-zero-based-budgeting-1427415074 |title=Meet the Father of Zero-Based Budgeting |work=[The Wall Street Journal](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal) |date=March 26, 2015 |access-date=December 26, 2015}}</ref>

Pyhrr was age 27 when he developed ZBB at TI.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1976/october/yesterday-tl-tomorrow-the-us/ |title=Yesterday Tl, Tomorrow the US? |work=[D Magazine](/source/D_Magazine) |date=October 1, 1976|access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Pyhrr, Peter A., "Zero-base Budgeting," ''[Harvard Business Review](/source/Harvard_Business_Review)'', (November–December 1970), p.&nbsp;111-121.

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