George E. Bates (professor)
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George E. Bates (1902-1992) was an American academic. He was a Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School.
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]
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]
Personal life and death
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 died on September 25, 1992 in Camden.[1]
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