President of New Jersey Bell Telephone and the Rockefeller Foundation. Although he did not write much, he did produce "the century's seminal book on corporate leadership...", The Functions of the Executive.
Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies. Barnard's study of interaction between people in economic...
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...
