George E. Bates (professor)

George Eugene Bates
Born 1902
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died September 25, 1992
Camden, Maine, U.S.
Residence Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Camden, Maine, U.S.
Alma mater University of Missouri
Harvard Business School
Occupation Academic
Spouse(s) Louise MacMillan
Children 2 sons

George E. Bates (1902-1992) was an American academic. He was a Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School and the editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Early life

George E. Bates graduated from the University of Missouri.[1] He also earned a master in business administrator (M.B.A.) from the Harvard Business School in 1925.[1][2]

Career

Bates started his career as an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Business School in 1925.[2] Over the course of his forty-year career as a faculty member, he became the Winston Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School.[1][2] He authored two books and many academic articles.[2] He was also the editor of the Harvard Business Review and the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin.[1][2] He became professor emeritus in 1965.[2]

In Investment Management: A Casebook, Bates presents many business cases of investment management. Reviewing it for The Journal of Finance, University of Washington professor Fred J. Mueller suggested the cases were outdated.[3] Meanwhile, French industrial economist Jacques Houssiaux said in Revue économique that the cases could not be applied to the French context, though he hoped the book would inspire French investment managers.[4]

Bates was an advisor to the Institute of Business Administration at Istanbul University in Turkey,[1] and to the government of Tunisia.[2] He participated in the 1958 expedition to the ancient city of Sardis with faculty from Harvard and Cornell University.[1]

Bates was an honorary curator of the Byzantine coins and seals section of the Fogg Museum.[2] He was the author of a book about Byzantine coins.[2] He was a fellow of the American Numismatic Society.[2]

Personal life, death and legacy

Bates was married to Louise MacMillan, and they had two sons, George and Nathaniel.[2] They resided in Concord, Massachusetts, where he was a vice president of the Emerson Hospital.[2] On his retirement in 1965, they moved to Camden, Maine.[2]

Bates was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Somerset Club, the Country Club of Brookline and the Vine Book Hunt Club.[2] He was also an honorary trustee of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.[2]

Bates died on September 25, 1992 in Camden.[1]

Bates is the namesake of an endowed chair at the Harvard Business School held by William E. Fruhan Jr..[5]

Works

  • Bates, George E. (1959). Investment Management: A Casebook. New York: McGraw-Hill. OCLC 66113099.
  • Bates, George E. (1971). Byzantine Coins. Cambridge, Massassachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674089655. OCLC 185400901.

Archives and records

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "George E. Bates, 89, Investment Professor And Expert on Coins". The New York Times. October 8, 1992. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Business Professor, 90, Dies". The Harvard Crimson. October 2, 1992. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Mueller, Fred J. (September 1960). "Review: Investment Management: A Casebook. By George E. Bates". The Journal of Finance. 15 (3): 444–445. doi:10.2307/2326202 – via JSTOR. (Registration required (help)).
  4. ↑ Houssiaux, Jacques (January 1962). "Review: Investment Management By George E. Bates". Revue économique. 13 (1): 153–154. doi:10.2307/3498272 – via JSTOR. (Registration required (help)).
  5. ↑ "William E. Fruhan: George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus". Harvard Business School. Retrieved March 4, 2017.


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