Learned, Edmund Philip.

Edmund P. Learned taught at the Harvard Business School as Professor of Marketing (1927-1945), Professor of Business Administration (1945-1960), and Professor of Business Policy (1960-1967).

Edmund Philip Learned (b. 1900) received the A.B. and A.M. in Economics from the University of Kansas in 1922 and 1925 respectively, and the MBA and Doctor of Commercial Science degrees from Harvard Business School in 1927 and 1930. He taught economics and retailing at the University of Kansas from 1922-1925 and at Simmons College from 1928-1933. He was Professor of Marketing at HBS (1927-1945), Professor of Business Administration (1945-1960), and Professor of Business Policy (1960-1967). Learned also taught at the Management Development Institute (IMEDE) at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1961-1962, and was a consultant to the Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force from 1942-1952, helping to establish the Army Air Forces Statistical School during World War II at HBS. He also served as a consultant to many private firms in the 1940s and 1950s.

Learned's major fields of interest were: Business strategy and policy ; planning; and management organization, motivation, and control. He took historical interest in a number of areas, and compiled notes and memoirs on changes in HBS education, as well as on his role as a consultant for the national defense.