Word: dennison
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...them to do their jobs better or faster. Says John McCarthy, assistant vice president for office systems at First National Bank of Boston: "There is no device yet on the market that addresses genuine executive functions." A survey of business managers earlier this year by a subsidiary of the Dennison Manufacturing Co., an office products firm in Framingham, Mass., found that many regarded computer-generated planning data as simply too detailed for the sorts of strategic decision making required of executives. Said one insurance executive: "The way computers are applied today is like using the space shuttle for home milk...
...tutor there). Not surprisingly, a life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his characteristicly elegant manner. Galbraith's insights into the characters of the famous men of the era are few, but he profiles several lesser-known individuals to delightful effect. Henry Dennison, a maverick New England business mogul of the 1930s and Leon Henderson, Galbraith's Hemmingwayesque superior at the OPA stand out particularly...