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Thorton F. Bradshaw '40, president of Atlantic Richfield Corp. (ARCO), spoke to guests at Lowell House last night while 12 protesters marched outside...
Boggs of Louisiana; Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; David Freeman, chairman of the T.V.A.; Russell Peterson, former Governor of Delaware and president of the National Audubon Society; John Sawhill, president of New York University and former administrator of the Federal Energy Administration; Martin Ward, president of the plumbers and pipefitters union; Jerome Wiesner, president of M.I.T...
Some mergers enhance competition. Oil would seem an unlikely industry for this to occur in. But Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield, argued that the acquisition in 1966 by the Atlantic Refining Co. of the Richfield Oil Corp. turned two so-so firms into a company strong enough to compete against the industry giants. Yet Bradshaw noted that his powers, like those of every high corporate executive, are severely limited: "Every decision made at my desk is influenced by some and sometimes most of the following: environmentalists, consumers, tax reformers, antinuclear protesters, the constraints of Government, the DOE [Department...
...industry, their influence and power are actually being cut down by the energy upheavals of the 1970s. This winter the worldwide shortage of crude has encouraged one nation after another, and numerous independent oil firms, to deal directly with OPEC, in effect short-circuiting the big multinationals. Says Thornton Bradshaw...
Committee member Bradshaw must have been among Allison's more enthusiastic listeners. The oil executive received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1942 and taught there for the next ten years. In fact, two-thirds of the members of the Kennedy School's Visiting and Advisory Committees are corporate executives of partners in corporate law, management or investment firms. This is in spite of official University policy that Visiting Committees comprise persons who "are knowledgeable and experienced in the fields which they are called upon to examine." A Business School organ, happily echoing Allison's speech, said...