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William J. Abernathy, the first Harding Professor of Management of Technology at the Business School, died after struggling with cancer for four years. Abernathy had spent the decade before his death studying the American automobile industry and became as one of its leading academic advisers and critics. He was 50...
Supply-siders point out that the amount of tax paid by the rich jumped after Presidents Harding and Coolidge cut tax rates in the 1920s and after Kennedy and Johnson did so in the early 1960s. Between 1963 and 1965 the maximum tax rate dropped from 91% to 70%, but...
Braniff's plight was worse than that of most U.S. airlines. Nearly all were ravaged in the late 1970s and early '80s by problems ranging from rising fuel costs to competition from upstart cut-rate carriers. Under the brash leadership of former Chairman Harding Lawrence, Braniff began to...
The first Harding Professor of Management of Technology at the B-School, Abernathy was one of the first scholars to examine production at a separate field, like finance or marketing.
Failure: Andrew Johnson, Buchanan, Nixon, Grant, Harding. (William H. Harrison, Garfield and Reagan were not rated because they were not in office long enough for the historians to form judgments.)