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COLLECTION Identifier: Arch GA 50.14.1

George C. Lodge papers

Overview

This collection includes papers of Harvard Business School professor George Cabot Lodge documenting his research, teaching, and professional activities.

Dates

  • Creation: 1944-2016

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. HBS Archives collections require a secondary registration form, please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information.

Users can request access to digital materials in this collection. See folder level notes for additional information.

Conditions Governing Use

In many cases, Baker Library does not hold the copyright to the materials in its collections. Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status and identifying and contacting any copyright holders for permission to reproduce or publish content from collections. Baker Library has included the names of third-party copyright holders at the folder and item level when known.

Extent

40.5 linear feet (97 boxes)
6 Megabytes (50 born-digital files in multiple formats)

This collection reflects the work of George Cabot Lodge as a teacher, researcher, and public intellectual. Extensive correspondence documents Lodge’s communications within Harvard and with other academics, business, and government leaders. Lodge wrote frequently on many issues related to business, economics, and government and collected memos on his own research, book reviews, letters to the editor, op-ed columns, speeches and works submitted to him for comment by other scholars, as well as born-digital materials.

His own research is documented through drafts of articles for professional journals, case studies and teaching notes, and published books. Lodge’s collaborative research on the Comparative Ideology Project and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Colloquium at Harvard Business School are also documented. Teaching materials collect Lodge’s course work and handouts from Business, Government and the International Economy, Comparative Business-Government Relations, Environmental Analysis for Management and other MBA courses as well as Lodge’s work with the executive Advance Management Program. Biographical material includes photographs, drafts of an unpublished memoir, and other personal writings.

The collection is divided into six series: I. Correspondence, II. Subject Files, III. Teaching, IV. Writings and Speeches, V. Research and Projects, and VI. Biographical.

Biographical / Historical

George Cabot Lodge was born July 7, 1927, to Henry Cabot Lodge II and Emily Esther Sears. His father would serve as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, among other political offices. Lodge served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-46, and then graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1950. Straight from college he began working as a political reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald. In 1954, he became Director of Information for the United States Department of Labor. President Eisenhower appointed him Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs in 1958. President Kennedy renewed his appointment in 1961.

Despite lacking a graduate degree, Harvard Business School appointed him lecturer in 1961. While at HBS, Lodge completed his first book based on his experiences in government, Spearheads of Democracy: The Role of Labor in Developing Countries, published in 1962. He left HBS in 1962 to run as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate against Edward M. Kennedy. Returning to the HBS faculty in 1963, Lodge played a major role in establishing the Central American Institute of Business Administration (Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas-INCAE). He became an associate professor of business administration at Harvard in 1968 and received tenure in 1972.

In 1970, Lodge published his next book Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, which emerged from a three year research project in the remote province of Verguas in Panama and argued that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. This work encouraged Congress to establish a new government agency, The Inter-American Foundation (IAF), of which Lodge was vice-chairman for seven years. Lodge published The New American Ideology in 1975 which documented the need for Americans to shift from ideology of individualism to recognizing community needs. Lodge expanded on this topic in 1984’s The American Disease. Lodge’s other works include Ideology and National Competitiveness with Ezra F. Vogel (1987), Perestroika for America: Restructuring U.S. Business-Government Relations for Competitiveness in the World Economy (1990), Managing Globalization in the Age of Interdependence (1995) and A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty with Craig Wilson (2006). Additionally, Lodge has published more than 40 articles, including 12 in the Harvard Business Review.

In the early 1980s, he developed Comparative Business-Government Relations (CBGR), an MBA elective examining the roles of government and business in this country and abroad. Later in the decade, he was a leading figure in teaching a new required module in Decision Making and Ethical Values. The Government of Singapore named Lodge a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow and he received an honorary doctorate from INCAE in 1994. In 1997, Lodge retired from the active faculty at HBS. He served as director of Nordic American Tanker Shipping from 1997-2007. Lodge is currently the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into six series: Correspondence; Subject Files: Teaching, Compiled; Writings and Speeches, Compiled; Research and Projects (various HBS colloquia, group writing projects); and Biographical.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

This collection contains digital material. You may need specialized software to access, render, or use these files. Baker Library Special Collections and Archives can provide software that will render a majority of file types on a computer in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room.

Physical Location

ARCFA

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of George C. Lodge, received in separate accessions in 1995, 2012, and 2017 [Accession #'s: A-95-40, A-12-41, A-12-44, and A-18-016].

Processing Information

Processed: June 2014

By: Liam Sullivan and Myles Crowley

A small portion of the collection was processed in 1995. This collection was integrated with the papers accessioned in 2012.

Additions processed [Accession # A-18-016]: September 2021 By: Liam Sullivan

Born-Digital Materials Processed: June 2023 By: Liam Sullivan

Processing Information

Baker Library Special Collections and Archives (BLSCA) staff extracted digital materials from storage media when possible. Staff surveyed files and screened them for privacy and confidentiality concerns. Following internal policy, BLSC staff did not retain deleted files, operating system and program files, or unallocated space data. The storage media have been deaccessioned.

Processing Information

Floppy disks 012320050_FD_0001 and 012320050_FD_0010 were reviewed and deaccessioned from the collection in 2023.

Author
Baker Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng
EAD ID
bak00247

Repository Details

Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository

Baker Library Special Collections and Archives holds unique resources that focus on the evolution of business and industry, as well as the records of the Harvard Business School, documenting the institution's development over the last century. These rich and varied collections support research in a diverse range of fields such as business, economic, social and cultural history as well as the history of science and technology.

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