George E. Bates

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 was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 23, 1902, the son of W. Scott and Emyle Louise (Carlat) Bates. He graduated from Westport High School in Kansas City in 1919. While in high school he attended Culver Summer Naval School (Culver, Indiana), in 1917 and 1918. He earned both an A.B. (1923) and an A.M. (1924) from the University of Missouri and then a master in business administration (M.B.A.) from the Harvard Business School in 1925. 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.

Bates was an advisor to the Institute of Business Administration at Istanbul University in Turkey (1959–60, 1962–65),

Works

Archives and records George Eugene Bates papers at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School