C. Jackson Grayson

C. Jackson Grayson
C. Jackson "Jack" Grayson, Jr. (October 8, 1923 – May 4, 2017) was the chairman of APQC, dean of two business schools, head of the U.S. Price Commission (1971), a farmer, newspaper reporter and FBI agent. In 1977 he founded APQC as a private sector, non-profit organization.
C. Jackson Grayson was the U.S. chairman of the Price Commission in the United States from 1971 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. In that position under the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970, Grayson oversaw price controls and the process through which companies request permission to increase prices. Grayson gained exposure to productivity issues and how they related to product pricing. Grayson went on to found the American Productivity and Quality Center in 1977 where he resided as chairman and oversaw the organization's public education improvement initiatives.
Professional experience
Education
B.B.A., Tulane University, 1944
M.B.A., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1947
D.B.A., Harvard Business School, 1969
Academic career
Instructor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1947–1949
Asst. Professor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1953–1955
Asst. Professor: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1958–1959
Associate Professor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1959–1963
Associate Dean: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1961–1963
Professor: IMDE:International Institute for Management Development, Management Development Institute, Switzerland, 1963–1964
Visiting Professor: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Spring 1967
Dean and Professor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1963–1968
Visiting Professor: INSEAD, Management Development Institute, Fontainebleau, France, Summers 1972, 1973, 1975
Dean and Professor: School of Business Administration, Southern Methodist University, 1968–1975
Positions
Certified Public Accountant, Louisiana, 1943–present
Newspaper reporter, New Orleans Item, 1949–1950
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., 1950–1952
Farm Manager, C. J. Grayson Farm, (cotton, cattle, soybeans) Fort Necessity, Louisiana, 1952
Partner, James E. O'Neill & Associates, an export-import business, New Orleans, 1953
Asst. to the Vice President for Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1953–1955
Chairman, U.S. Price Commission, Washington, D.C., 1971–1973
Chairman, American Productivity & Quality Center, 1975–present
Consultant Panel, Comptroller General of the United States, 1978–1991
Member of three Presidential Commissions:
President Richard Nixon: U.S. Price Commission, 1971
President Carter: Commission for a National Agenda for the 80's, 1980
President Reagan: National Productivity Advisory Committee, 1982
Retired member of the Board of Directors for Lever Bros., Sun Company, Overhead Door, Tyler Corporation, Whitman Corporation, Potlatch Corporation, Oryx Energy, Harris Corporation, Infomart, Browning-Ferris Industries
Member of Board of Directors, Global Alliance for Transnational Education
Bibliography
Articles and Monographs
Grayson has written over 60 monographs, papers, and articles in various publications.
Books
Decisions Under Uncertainty: Drilling Decisions by Oil and Gas Operators, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, 1960
Confessions of a Price Controller, Dow Jones-Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 1974
American Business: A Two-Minute Warning, co-authored with Carla O'Dell, The Free Press, New York, 1988
If Only We Knew What We Know, co-authored with Carla O'Dell, The Free Press, New York, 1998
Awards
2000 Named by Teleos, an English research firm, as one of the 10 “Most Admired Knowledge Leaders” in North America.
2003 The American Society for Quality (ASQ) awards Grayson its Distinguished Service Medal. The medal honors the lifetime contribution of any person who has been recognized as a long-term enabler, catalyst or prime mover in the quality movement.
2006 Southern Methodist University names an endowed MBA scholarship in entrepreneurial studies and an annual faculty innovation award in Grayson's honor.
References
External links
APQC
Open Standards Benchmarking
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (NIST)
Public School Insights Interview with Grayson
1923 births
2017 deaths
American businesspeople
American business theorists
American economics writers
American male non-fiction writers
Quality experts
People from Franklin Parish, Louisiana
Harvard Business School alumni
Tulane University alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents