Paul Eugene Holden

Paul Eugene Holden (September 17, 1893 – April 9, 1976) was an American mechanical engineer, and Professor of Industrial Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, who was awarded the 1941 Henry Laurence Gantt Medal for his contributions to management.

Biography Youth and early career in industry Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Holden attended elementary, high school and Purdue University, where in 1916 he obtained his BSc in mechanical engineering. After graduation Holden started his career at the Indianapolis manufacturer of Saws, Saw Tools and Machine Knives E.C. Atkins & Company in 1916 as a special apprentice or special assistant. The next year he became army ordnance officer in World War I, and upon his return at E.C. Atkins & Co. he got promoted to production manager in 1919

In 1920 he moved to New York, where he was assistant production manager at Remington Typewriter Company for a year, and industrial engineer at the library bureau in Ilion, New York for another year. In 1922 he joined the United States Chamber of Commerce, where he was assistant manager for the Department of Manufacture for another three years. Holden had shared this opinion on a 1942 Stanford conference on wartime production. Contributions from industries like Standard Oil and Westinghouse Electric and Westinghouse Electric under the presidency by Holden, who was considered the major management guru of the day. In return Veysey never completed his dissertation, but went into politics instead.

Publications Holden, Paul Eugene, Lounsbury Spaight Fish, and Hubert L. Smith. Top-management organization and control: a research study of the management policies and practices of thirty-one leading industrial corporations. (1941). Holden, Paul Eugene, Carlton Anker Pederson, and Gayton E. Germane. Top management. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.