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Walter Kiechel III
Walter Kiechel III (born July 21, 1946 in Tecumseh, Nebraska) is an author and business journalist. He has served as Managing Editor of ''Fortune'' magazine and as the Editorial Director of Harvard Business School Publishing, producer of the ''Harvard Business Review''. His most recent work is ''The Lords of Strategy'', which ''The Wall Street Journal'' has described as a "clear, deft and cogent" history of the management consulting industry. Biography Born to Walter Kiechel Jr., a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney, and Mary Kiechel, Kiechel III grew up in Alexandria, Virginia before attending Harvard College on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship. Kiechel was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1968, when he was commissioned into the United States Navy. There he served in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea aboard the destroyers USS William R. Rush (DD-714) and USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865), eventually attaining the rank of Lieutenant. During h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tecumseh, Nebraska
Tecumseh is a city in and the county seat of Johnson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,677 at the 2010 census. History Tecumseh was originally called Frances, and under the latter name was established in 1856. The label of Frances has long been falsely attributed as the name of the wife of Col. Richard M Johnson, the namesake of Johnson County. Johnson's only marriage was to Julia Chinn, a common-law spouse. Julia Chinn, was an octoroon slave (one-eighth African, seven-eighths European in ancestry), born into slavery around 1790. Some historians have accepted the possibility that the legislature intended to name the county seat after Francis Burt, the first Governor of the Nebraska Territory. Shortly after being founded, the name was changed to Tecumseh after the Native American Chief said to have been killed by Johnson during the Battle of the Thames. The Nebraska Territorial Legislature established Tecumseh as the county seat in February 1857. Geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |