George Albert Smith Jr. (1905–1969) was a professor at Harvard Business School who wrote several books on management practice and other issues.
Occupation
teacher
Born
1905
Died
October 12, 1969
Overview
George Albert Smith Jr. (1905–1969) was a professor at Harvard Business School who wrote several books on management practice and other issues.
Smith was the only son and third child of George Albert Smith, who would become the eighth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and his wife Lucy Woodruff. Lucy was the daughter of Wilford Woodruff Jr., a son of Wilford Woodruff, who was the fourth president of the LDS Church. At the time of George Albert Smith Jr.'s birth his father was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
As a young man, Smith was a missionary for the LDS Church in Switzerland and Germany.
Smith received his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and a graduate degree in business administration from Harvard University. He served as student body president of the Harvard Business School Association from 1933 to 1934. In 1934 he was appointed a member of the editorial board of the Harvard Business Review.
