Harry L. Hansen (21 October 1911, New York City - 3 August 1992, Cambridge Massachusetts) was a pioneer of management education.
He studied at
Haverford College in 1933, and continued on at
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
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to earn his master's degree in 1935, and a doctorate in 1939.
In 1949 Hensen became a full professor at Harvard, and 1965 he was the inaugural
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing. He stayed at Harvard until 1977.
After his years at Harvard, he took the position of dean of
Institut pour l'Etude des Methodes de Direction de l'Entreprise in Lausanne, Switzerland until 1981, and then became a distinguished professor at
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE), in Barcelona, Spain.
In 1985 he received the
Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, and received Harvard's Distinguished Service Award, its highest honour.
External links
Obituary The New York Times
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Obituary independent.co.uk
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Archives and records
Harry L. Hansen papersat Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.
1911 births
1992 deaths
Harvard Business School alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
Haverford College alumni
Harvard Business School faculty
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