Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business worker and the secretary of defense. He contributed a lot in rapidly increasing the involvement of US in the Vietnam War.
When he was at young age he observed the unrest among labor and heck of unemployment. He felt that economics could be used as a best tool for resolving certain societal problems so he chose this as his major in University of California after high school. He believed that management is not only for the financial gain to an individual or the company but also for making positive changing in society and world as a whole.
After entering Harvard Business School, one required course was business statistics which started teaching methods of quantitative decision making. McNamara studied several courses on cost accounting, management information system, control management and decision making which covered all the contemporary techniques of management. McNamara was also a very bright student and could
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There was a major role of the aircrafts but no system was there to track them and the people in it. So McNamara helped by statistical analysis improving transporting efficiencies. He stressed upon the word ‘meaning of figures’ as this was taught by the Harvard business School to keenly observe the autonomy of something.
He contributed a lot in making things work for the Army department during war. After the world war he did not go back to teaching in /Harvard instead he joined a team from statistical control that became part of ford. This team was named as ‘Whiz Kids. Ford charged them to look upon the facts and figures because of which the company was losing money which was once at the very top among the vehicle companies. Whiz Kids were streamlined to make this company profitable again because Henry Ford was getting old and things were not in place and the company was going in