Background
Pat Haggerty was born in Harvey, North Dakota, the son of Michael Eugene and Lillian (Evenson) Haggerty in 1914.
Pat Haggerty was born in Harvey, North Dakota, the son of Michael Eugene and Lillian (Evenson) Haggerty in 1914.
Marquette University.
Haggerty is most responsible for turning a small Texas oil exploration company into the leader in semiconductors that Texas Instruments is today. Under his influence, the company invested in transistors when their commercial value was still much in question. His company created the first silicon transistor, the first commercial transistor radio, and the first integrated circuit.
As a youth he built his own radio and was one of the first amateur radio operators in North Dakota.
In 1936 Pat graduating summa cum laude from the Marquette University School of Electrical Engineering. In November, 1945 Haggerty joined Graduate Student Instructor in Dallas as general manager of the newly formed Laboratory and Manufacturing Division, with responsibility for developing the research, engineering, and manufacturing phases of the company"s operations.
In December 1951 Graduate Student Instructor became Texas Instruments, Incorporated. In 1951 Haggerty became executive vice president and director, in 1958 president, and in 1966 chairman, a post he held until retiring.
While at Texas Instruments Haggerty developed his concepts of Strategic Management.
This resulted in his objectives, strategies, tactics (OST) system of managing innovation. Haggerty was active in the Institute of Radio Engineers (Institute of Radio Engineers), serving as its president in 1962. He was co-chair of the committee that merged the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) into the present Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
Haggerty was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1969, he was the International Republican Institute Medal recipient, awarded by the Industrial Research Institute.
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Pat is also an alumni member of the Sigma Phi Delta fraternity (a social-professional fraternity of engineers).