Harrington Emerson
American efficiency engineer and business theorist (1853-1931) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 78
Harrington Emerson was an American efficiency engineer and business theorist, who founded the management consultancy firm Emerson Institute in New York City in 1900.
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Emerson, 1916
Santa Fe shop, Topeka, Kansas painting cars around 1900-1930.
Planning department bulletin, showing how, under Scientific Management, the work for each man or each machine is mapped out in advance, 1911.
Record of efficiency and costs in locomotive repairs by Emerson, 1912
Emerson in a 1929 Autochrome by Georges ChevalierAbout this person
Known for his pioneering contributions to scientific management, Emerson may have done more than anyone else to popularize the topic: His public testimony in 1910 to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the railroads could save $1,000,000 a day started a nationwide interest in the subject of "efficiency".
