Elton Mayo papers, 1914-1947 (inclusive).

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Roethlisberger, F. J. (Fritz Jules), 1898-1974

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Fritz Jules Roethlisberger earned a BA in engineering from Columbia University (1921) BS in engineering administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1922), and an MA in philosophy from Harvard University (1925). His studies toward a PhD in philosophy at Harvard were interrupted when he met Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research at Harvard Business School. He became Mayo's assistant and a member of the HBS Department of Industrial Research from 1927 to 1946. He became Inst...

Mayo, Elton, 1880-1949

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Elton Mayo joined HBS in 1926 as Head of the new Department of Industrial Research. He was Associate Professor at Harvard Business School from 1926-1929, Professor from 1929-1947, and Professor Emeritus from 1947-1949. Between 1928 and 1933 Mayo was closely associated with the Hawthorne Studies, an industrial research project conducted at the Western Electric Company plant in Hawthorne, Illinois. He died in Guilford, England on December 9, 1949. From the description of Elton Mayo pap...

Western electric company

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The Western Electric Company was a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. The firm manufactured a wide variety of telephone equipment at its Hawthorne Works in Chicago, Illinois. A notable series of worker efficiency experiments known as the Hawthorne Studies were staged at the plant between 1924 and 1933. From the description of Photograph album, 1925. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52815587 From the description of Western Electric Com...

Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Donham, Wallace Brett, 1877-1954

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Lombard, George F. F. (George Francis Fabyan), 1911-

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George F.F. Lombard was born in 1911. He received a BA from Harvard College (1933), and MBA (1935) and PhD in Commercial Science (1942) from Harvard Business School. Lombard started his professional career at HBS as Assistant Dean in 1936. He served in this position until 1940 when he joined the faculty as Instructor in Industrial Research. He became Associate Dean for Educational Programs in 1962 and was appointed Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations in 1965. Lombard became Senior Ass...

Barnard, Chester I., 1886-1961

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Business executive and management theorist. Barnard attended Harvard for three years but left in 1909 and went to work for A.T. & T. He rose rapidly in the company, becoming president of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company in 1927. He left the Bell system in 1948 and served for four years as president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Barnard is most famous for his classic study of the theory of organization The Functions of the Executive, published in 1938. From the description o...

Whitehead, T. N. (Thomas North)

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Thomas North Whitehead served as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps (635 MT Company) and was active in the East Africa campaign, 1916. From the guide to the Thomas Whitehead papers, 1914-1916, (Leeds University Library) ...

Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. Conant taught chemistry at Harvard from 1917-1933; he served as Harvard's president from 1933-1953. He was the national director of defense research from 1941-1945, and was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb. He continued as President of Harvard until 1953, at which time he was made United States High Commissioner for Germany. When allied military occupation of Germany ended in 1955, Conant became the U.S. A...

David, Donald Kirk

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Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970

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W. Lloyd Warner was born on October 26, 1898 in Redlands, California. He attended the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkley, where he received his B.A. in anthropology in 1926. Warner also attended graduate school at Berkeley and spent three years researching in northeastern Australia. Warner became assistant professor of Anthropology at Harvard University in 1929. In 1935, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago where h...