Ralph Ferguson Lewis

Background

Lewis, Ralph Ferguson was born on January 21, 1918 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Mark C. and Marguerite (Ferguson) Lewis.

Education

Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Amherst College, 1939. Master of Business Administration (Baker scholar), Harvard University, 1941.

Career

Special agent Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1941-1945. Assistant controller Time, Incorporated., 1945-1951. Assistant managing editor Fortune Magazine, 1951-1952.

Management consultant Booz, Allen & Hamilton, New York City, 1952-1954.

National director management services Arthur Young & Company, Certified Public Accountants’s New York City, 1954-1961, general partner charge New York City office, 1962-1970, member management committee, 1965-1970, director government relations, 1970-1971. Editor, publisher Harvard Business Review, Boston, 1971-1979.

Director Houghton Mifflin Company, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Incorporated., Frank B. Hall & Company, Incorporated., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget Services Incorporated.

Achievements

• Ralph Ferguson Lewis has been listed as a noteworthy editor, publisher. by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: Management Uses of Accounting, 1961. Planning and Control for Profit, 1970. Contributor articles professional journals.

Membership

Member National Commision on Electronic Fund Transfers, 1975-1979. President school board, Briarcliff Manor, New York, 1954-1957. Member visiting committee Harvard Business School, 1967-1971.

Member American Institute Certified Public Accountants’s (executive council), Harvard Business School Alumni Association (president 1965-1966).

Clubs: Sleepy Hollow Country, Scarborough-on-Hudson.

Connections

Married Thelma Linke, October 27, 1941. Children: John, Barbara, Virginia.

Father:

Mark C. Lewis

Mother:

Marguerite (Ferguson) Lewis

Spouse:

Thelma Linke

child:

John Lewis

child:

Virginia Lewis

child:

Barbara Lewis