Andrews, Raymond Remembered
Professors Emeriti Kenneth R. Andrews and Thomas J.C. Raymond, two distinguished and much-loved faculty members, both passed away in September. Andrews, who served on the HBS faculty from 1946 to 1986, was a founder of the field of corporate strategy, a concept that he helped develop from a series of cases he wrote on the Swiss watch industry. A Ph.D. in English and the author of a critically acclaimed book on Mark Twain, Andrews also edited the Harvard Business Review for six years and was the master of Harvard’s Leverett House from 1971 to 1981. During his tenure at HBR, Andrews became increasingly interested in the study of ethics and personal values in the workplace and encouraged practicing managers to write about this subject for the magazine.
Raymond was a member of the HBS faculty from 1950 to 1987. As faculty chair of the legendary course Written Analysis of Cases (WAC), he trained generations of MBA students in the art of writing clearly and cogently. A graduate of HBS (MBA 11/’47) and of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (Ed.D. ’57), Raymond taught MBA courses in arts-organization and small-business management and on the role of business in society. The breadth of his interests and capabilities is evident in the range of his teaching, from a program at HBS for big-city police chiefs to a Harvard College course, Business in American Life, in which students set up small businesses as research projects.
