George P. Baker (dean of Harvard Business School)

{{short description|American academic administrator}}

{{About||the later Harvard Business School faculty member| George P. Baker (Herman C. Krannert Professor)|the American educator in the field of drama|George Pierce Baker}}

George Pierce Baker (November 1, 1903 – January 25, 1995){{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/28/obituaries/george-baker-harvard-dean-and-us-adviser-dies-at-91.html|work= The New York Times|title= George Baker, Harvard Dean And U.S. Adviser, Dies at 91|author= Ronald Sullivan|date= January 28, 1995|page=10}}[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90660667.html Library of Congress Name Authority File: Baker, George P. (George Pierce), 1903-1995] was the fifth dean of the Harvard Business School.{{cite web |url=http://www.hbs.edu/about/history.html |title=Our History |accessdate=7 January 2009 |publisher=hbs.edu |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805093357/http://www.hbs.edu/about/history.html |archivedate=2010-08-05 |url-status=live }}

Baker earned his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. all from Harvard University. He began teaching at Harvard in 1928 and joined Harvard Business School faculty in 1936.{{Cite web |url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00035 |title=Biographical note connected with Harvard Business School papers |access-date=2012-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703001925/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00035 |archive-date=2018-07-03 |url-status=dead }} He left Harvard and joined the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1942. In 1945 he became the director of the Office of Transport and Communications Policy for the United States Department of State. From 1946 to 1956 he served as the United States member of the United Nations Transport and Communications Commission.[http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/bakergp.htm Harry S. Truman Library bio] In 1946 Baker also returned to Harvard Business School as the James J. Hill Professor of Transportation.{{Cite web |url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00035 |title=Harvard Business School bio |access-date=2012-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703001925/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00035 |archive-date=2018-07-03 |url-status=dead }}

His father (whom he is named after) is George Pierce Baker (April 4, 1866 – January 6, 1935)[http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1800047 American National Biography] was a professor of English at Harvard and Yale and author of Dramatic Technique, a codification of the principles of drama.