Most of Chester Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A
Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor's
degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the
Statistical Department, took him to technical expertness in the
economics of rates and administrative experience in the management
of commercial operations, and culminated in the presidency of the
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. He was not directly involved in
the Western Electric experiments conducted chiefly at the Hawthorne
plant in Cicero, but his association with Elton Mayo and the
latter's colleagues at the Harvard Business School had an important
bearing on his most original ideas. Barnard's executive experience
at AT&T was paralleled and followed by a career in public
service unusual in his own time and hardly routine today. He was at
various times president of the United Services Organization (the
USO of World War II), head of the General Education Board and later
president of the Rockefeller Foundation (after Raymond Fosdick and
before Dean Rusk), chairman of the National Science Foundation, an
assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, a consultant to the
American representative in the United Nations Atomic Energy
Committee, to name only some of his public interests. He was a
director of a number of companies, a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a lover of music and a founder
of the Bach Society of New Jersey.
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