From Monomania to Megalomania: Harold Geneen and ITT

Abraham Zaleznik

Chapter 9 in Hedgehogs and Foxes, 2008, pp 121-136 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When Harold Geneen, the former chairman and CEO of ITT, died, the obituaries invariably singled out the same large aspects of his public life: his unprecedented capacity for work, his relentless campaign to increase the size of ITT through acquisitions, his prominence as an advocate and practitioner of the corporate conglomerate, his overreaching in attempts to influence the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and his offers of money to the CIA to overthrow the election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile. (When Allende was assassinated, Geneen and ITT were suspected of complicity.)

Keywords: Chief Executive; Federal Communication Commission; Attorney General; Chief Financial Officer; Investment Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230614154_9

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