Henry Hallowell Farquhar (July 13, 1884 – December 15, 1968) was an American academic, writer, and businessman. Attending the University of Michigan, he excelled in basketball and played on the school's first team. He was on the faculty at

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in the 1910s and 1920s and published extensively in the area of factory and industrial management. He was a proponent of Frederick Taylor's principles of

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Early years

Farquhar was born in Maryland in July 1884. He attended the

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. He played on the school's first basketball team, the

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. On January 9, 1909, he scored 10 of Michigan's 16 points in the school's first intercollegiate basketball game, a 24–16 loss to Michigan Agricultural College (now known as

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). In the final game of a short five-game season, Farquhar scored 16 of Michigan's 24 points, on four field goals and eight free throws, in a 42–24 loss to Ohio State. He was also the team's leading scorer for the season with 48 points in five games. From 1909 to 1914, Farquhar worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture and published several articles on forestry. He subsequently enrolled at the Harvard Business School and received his M.B.A. in 1916.

Academic and author

Farquhar joined the faculty at Harvard Business School as an instructor in scientific management theory from 1916 to 1920. He became an assistant professor of industrial management in 1920 and served in that capacity until 1925. Farquhar was also a published author, writing mostly on topics concerning industrial management. His works include: *"A Technique for Enlisting Employee Cooperation in the Improvement of Administration," ''Personnel'', May 1946, 8 pages. *"The Anomaly of Functional Authority at the Top," ''Advanced Management'', Vol. 7, No. 2 (April–June, 1942), p. 51. *"A Critical Analysis of Scientific Management," ''Bulletin of the Taylor Society'', February 1924. *"Measuring the Performance of the Production Department," ''Harvard Business Review'', April 1923. *"Factory Storeskeeping: The Control and Storage of Materials," McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1922, 176 pages; *"Incentive or Production Basis of Wage Payment," ''

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'', 1921. *"How Do You Regulate Materials?," ''

'', 1920 *"Factory Nicknames That Save Time," ''Factory'', 1919. *"Positive Contributions of Scientific Management: The Elimination of Some Losses Characteristic of Present-Day Manufacture," ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' (1919), 38 pages. *"Factory Management, or Business Management," 1918. *"Which Machine Shall Come First?," ''Factory'', July 1917. *"The Introduction of Scientific Management into a Woodworking Shop," Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1916, 80 pages. *"Mountain Logging in West Virginia," ''Journal of Forestry'', 1909.

Later years and family

In 1925, Farquhar became the comptroller for A. L. Smith Iron Works in

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. By 1930, he was living in

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, and working as an industrial manager for a bank. In 1942, he was living in

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, and working for the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. Farquhar was married to Elizabeth Farquhar. They had two daughters, Anne and Lydia.Census entry for Henry H. Farquhar, age 46, born in Maryland. Employed as an industrial manager for a bank. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census atabase on-line Year: 1930; Census Place: Hastings on Hudson, Westchester, New York; Roll: 1660; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 139; Image: 157.0; FHL microfilm: 2341394. Farquhar died in December 1968 at age 84. He was living in

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when he died.Death record for Henry H. Farquhar, born July 13, 1884, died December 15, 1968. Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index atabase on-line Farquhar's papers are housed at the

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at Harvard Business School.

References

Archives and records

Henry Hallowell Farquhar papers
at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School. {{DEFAULTSORT:Farquhar, Henry Hallowell 1884 births 1968 deaths Basketball players from Maryland Michigan Wolverines men's basketball players Harvard Business School faculty People from Sandy Spring, Maryland United States Department of Agriculture Harvard Business School alumni Writers from Chelsea, Massachusetts People from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York American men's basketball players