John N. Warfield to Harvard Business Review

In this letter to Theodore Levitt, editor of the Harvard Business Review, Warfield describes his work and publications dealing with the theory and applications of a methodology described in an article the journal recently published titled "The House of Quality" written by Harvard professors Houser and Clausing. None of Warfield’s work had been cited or recognized.



I have a scanned copy of Warfield's letter to the editor, and the editor Theodore Levitt's two-sentence reply thanking Professor Warfield for the letter and the accompanying bibliography. Nothing more was ever heard from Harvard. In his letter Warfield described in detail his own publications and research projects dealing with the theory and applications of a methodology described in Harvard Business Review article titled "The House of Quality" by Harvard professors Houser and Clausing. None of Warfield's previously published materials had been cited, and none of his earlier research work at Battelle was recognized in the Houser and Clausing article. As background, who was the man from Harvard who visited the Fairfax campus and talked to Warfield about his work? The visit was sometime in the first year or two after Warfield opened his Institute at George Mason University. When I asked him years later Warfield couldn't remember exact date the visitor came, not even the year, only that his visitor had been very interested in Warfield's work, asked lots of questions and went away loaded with information and papers donated by Warfield. All I remember was Warfield talking about that visit with the obvious hope that at last his work might be starting to get recognition from the outside. Warfield truly believed that at the very least the visitor would go away and spread word of Warfield's research and writings. R.W. September 2011




Additional Info

  • Category: Correspondence and Communications
  • Size: 21 m 34 s
  • Description: Tape-bound pamphlet
  • Publication Year: 1990
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