# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-levitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:01:00.015Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-levitt"
name: "Theodore Levitt"
slug: "theodore-levitt"
description: "Theodore Levitt was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: \"Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer\"."
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birthDate: "1925-03-01"
deathDate: "2006-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump