20th Century Leaders - Leadership - Harvard Business School

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Henry C. Alexander
Morgan Guaranty Trust, 1959–1967

Desiderio A. Arnaz
Desilu Productions, 1950–1962

Ian K. Ballantine
Ballantine Books, 1952–1974

William M. Batten
JCPenney Company, 1958–1974

Olive Ann M. Beech
Beech Aircraft Corporation, 1950–1968

Richard A. Bloch
H & R Block, 1955–1978

Charles G. Bluhdorn
Gulf and Western, 1958–1983

Marvin Bower
McKinsey & Company, 1950–1967

Francis Boyer
Smith Kline & French Laboratories, 1951–1958

Herbert P. Buetow
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, 1953–1963

Richard W. Clark
Dick Clark Productions, 1956–2007

Wilton D. Cole
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1956–1963

John T. Connor
Merck & Company, 1955–1964

Ralph J. Cordiner
General Electric Company, 1950–1963

Joseph F. Cullman III
Philip Morris Companies, 1957–1979

Harry B. Cunningham
S. S. Kresge Company/K Mart, 1959–1972

Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors Corporation, 1953–1958

Arthur J. Decio
Skyline Corporation, 1959–1998

Richard M. DeVos
Amway Corporation, 1959–1992

Morse G. Dial
Union Carbide Corporation, 1952–1963

Earl B. Dickerson
Supreme Life Insurance Company of America, 1956–1971

Frederic G. Donner
General Motors Corporation, 1958–1967

Jack M. Eckerd
Eckerd Corporation, 1952–1974

Frank M. Freimann
Magnavox Company, 1950–1967

Robert W. Galvin
Motorola, 1956–1986

Harold S. Geneen
International Telephone and Telegraph, 1959–1977

Jean Paul Getty
Getty Oil Company, 1956–1976

Berry Gordy, Jr.
Motown Records Corporation, 1959–1986

William B. Graham
Baxter International, 1953–1980

Bowman Gray, Jr.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 1957–1967

Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Levi Strauss and Company, 1958–1976

Patrick E. Haggerty
Texas Instruments, 1958–1976

Armand Hammer
Occidental Oil Company, 1957–1990

Hugh M. Hefner
Playboy Enterprises, 1953–1988

Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
Henderson (H. F.) Industries, 1952–Present

John M. Hiebert
Sterling Drug, 1955–1972

Samuel F. Hinkle
Hershey Foods Corporation, 1956–1965

Herbert W. Hoover, Jr.
Hoover Company, 1954–1966

Michael Ilitch
Little Caesar's Enterprises, 1959–Present

William Irrgang
Lincoln Electric Company, 1954–1986

Robert H. Johnson
Ingersoll-Rand Company, 1955–1966

John E. Jonsson
Texas Instruments, 1951–1958

Ewing M. Kauffman
Marion Laboratories, 1950–1989

John R. Kimberly
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, 1953–1967

John W. Kluge
Metromedia, 1959–1986

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McDonald's Corporation, 1955–1973

Raymond A. Kroc
McDonald's Corporation, 1955–1973

Alden J. Laborde
Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, 1953–1977

Carl H. Lindner, Jr.
American Financial Group, 1958–Present

Ian K. MacGregor
AMAX, 1956–1969

William C. MacInnes
TECO Energy, 1954–1967

Plato Malozemoff
Newmont Mining Corporation, 1954–1986

Morton L. Mandel
Premier Industrial Corporation, 1958–1996

H. Stanley Marcus
Neiman-Marcus Company, 1950–1969

Oscar Gustave Mayer
Oscar Mayer and Company, 1955–1966

John J. McCloy
Chase Manhattan Bank, 1953–1969

John H. McConnell
Worthington Industries, 1955–1993

Dean A. McGee
Kerr-McGee Corporation, 1954–1983

Donald C. McGraw
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1953–1966

Malcolm P. McLean
Sea-Land Service, 1956–1969

Howard J. Morgens
Procter & Gamble Company, 1957–1974

Charles G. Mortimer
General Foods Corporation, 1954–1965

Walter A. Munns
Smith Kline & French Laboratories, 1958–1967

Fred M. Nelson
Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, 1951–1960

William C. Norris
Control Data Corporation, 1957–1986

Robert N. Noyce
Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957–1968

Donald W. Nyrop
Northwest Airlines, 1954–1978

David M. Ogilvy
Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, 1954–1975

Kenneth H. Olsen
Digital Equipment Corporation, 1957–1992

Guy S. Peppiatt
Federal Mogul Corporation, 1950–1969

Franklin P. Perdue
Perdue Farms, 1953–1988

Wallace R. Persons
Emerson Electric Company, 1954–1973

Generoso P. Pope, Jr.
National Enquirer, 1952–1988

William W. Prince
Armour and Company, 1957–1969

Robert A. Pritzker
Marmon Group, 1953–Present

Donald N. Pritzker
Hyatt Hotels, 1959–1972

Ernesta G. Procope
E. G. Bowman, 1953–Present

Simon Ramo
Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, 1953–1958

Lyle C. Roll
Kellogg Company, 1957–1971

Harland Sanders
Kentucky Fried Chicken Company, 1956–1964

Frederic N. Schwartz
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 1957–1967

Clarence H. Shaver
United States Gypsum, 1951–1966

Elwyn L. Smith
Smith-Corona-Marchant Corporation, 1951–1960

Alfred N. Steele
PepsiCo, 1950–1959

Henry Z. Steinway
Steinway and Sons, 1957–1980

James E. Stowers, Jr.
American Century Companies, 1958–Present

Robert A. Stranahan, Jr.
Champion Spark Plug Company, 1955–1986

Charles D. Tandy
Tandy Corporation, 1950–1978

Charles B. (Tex) Thornton
Litton Industries, 1953–1961

Rose Totino
Totino's Pizza, 1951–1975

E. Gifford Upjohn
Upjohn Company, 1953–1961

Jay Van Andel
Amway Corporation, 1959–1992

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)
Lillian Vernon Corporation, 1951–Present

Ernest H. Volwiler
Abbott Laboratories, 1950–1958

An Wang
Wang Laboratories, 1951–1981

J. Basil Ward
Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, 1952–1966

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
IBM, 1955–1971

C. Kemmons Wilson
Holiday Inns of America, 1951–1979

Henry S. Wingate
International Nickel Corporation, 1954–1960

Paul B. Wishart
Honeywell, 1953–1960

Joseph S. Wright
Zenith Radio Corporation, 1959–1976

Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr.
Coastal Corporation, 1955–1997

Baby boom; business growth unfettered by regulations; conservative social norms; labor progress; technology commercialization; Korean War; cold war

Demographics
Influence: High: Medical advances extend life expectancy

More people now live in suburbs than cities

Population soars to 179 million
largest ten-year increase

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Technology
Influence: High: Television sales expand dramatically

Transistors used in portable radios and calculators

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Social Mores
Influence: Medium-Low: Social conformity

McCarthyism

Membership in organized religion soars

Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools>

Full Century

Government Intervention
Influence: Medium-Low: Military spending shifts to nuclear deterrents

Small Business Administration created

Full Century

Labor
Influence: Medium: The Organization Man

Union membership peaks

The AFL merges with the CIO: 15 million members

Full Century

Global Events
Influence: Medium-High: Cold war escalates

Korean War forces another mobilization effort

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