▼ Refine Your Categories ▼

Click a term to refine your current search.

Subject

: all » Arts & Humanities

Resource Type

Language

Social Tags

: all » Industry

Organization

: all » Harvard Business School

Country

Province Or State

More options
[×]

Subject

: Arts & Humanities
[×]

Social Tags

: Industry
[×]

Organization

: Harvard Business School

Category: Arts & Humanities, Industry, Harvard Business School

1 result

Results

The Human Factor Introduction In the 1930s Harvard Business School colleagues Donald Davenport and Frank Ayres contacted leading businesses and requested photographs for classroom instruction—images Davenport hoped would “reveal the courage, industry and intelligence required of the American working man.” They amassed more than 2,100 photographs, from strangely beautiful views of men operating Midvale Steel’s 9,000-ton hydraulic press to women assembling tiny, delicate parts of Philco radios. Now students, and America’s aspiring corporate managers, had visual data to study “the human factor,” the interaction of worker and machine. But the pictures were more than documentary records.

0
♥ 0
1,389 read