Francis Joseph Aguilar (August 19, 1932 – February 17, 2013) was an American scholar of

strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to attain strategic goals. It may also extend to control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the st ...

and

general management A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...

. He joined the faculty of

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in 1964 and became a tenured professor there in 1971. He served as consultant to many firms and on the boards of Dynamic Research Corporation and Bentley University. His publications include: ''Scanning the Business Environment'' (1967), ''European Problems in General Management'' (with Edmund P. Learned and Robert C.K. Kaltz, 1963) and ''General Managers in Action'' (1988, 1992). He graduated from RPI and

Archives and records

Francis J. Aguilar papers
at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School

References

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