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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R. Townes, and Henry L. A wealthy industrialist, Joseph Wharton aspired to produce “pillars of the state” whose leadership would extend across business and public life. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.