Management Hall of Fame: Leading Management Gurus

Henry Luce
Magazine Empire - Time, Fortune, Life & Sports Illustrated Magazines (1898-1967)

Key Work

• Graduates from Yale as the "most brilliant student." & the Editor of Yale "Daily News" newspaper
• He worked on the Chicago Daily News and then the Baltimore News
• Joins his  fellow Yale alumnus Briton Hadden and together they launch Time, Fortune, Life and Sports Illustrated magazines 
• He Joins William Hearst, Lord Beaverbrook, and Lord Thomson as the media /publishing moguls of their times.

Books & References:

• Cort, David. The Sin of Henry R. Luce An Anatomy of Journalism. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1974.
• Swanberg, W.A. Luce And His Empire . New York: Scribner, 1972.

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