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Ed Learned audio
Ed Learned talks about the convergence of disciplines in a 1985 interview with Jeffrey Cruikshank:
When the war started, that is the IA, Industrial Administrator degree program, Dean Donham gave me a personal directive to team up with Roethlisberger for human relations; Walker for Control, a very famous and able man; and Dick Merriam for economics, who was so busy working for Standard of New Jersey and advising the Oil Administrative Committee in Washington, that I had to get their suggestions. And then Fritz and I did the work. And then George Lombard was one of my research assistants, and Jack Glover. Those two fellows helped me build a Management Control course. And later they helped build Administrative Practices, which is now split up in lots of different ways. Donham said to me, he says, “Ed, what I want you to do is to unite the stream of human relations with control.”