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| '''Stanley Foster Reed''' (1917-2007) was an entrepreneur, inventor, and publisher who founded Reed Research Inc. in 1940, |
'''Stanley Foster Reed''' (1917-2007) was an entrepreneur, inventor, and publisher who founded Reed Research Inc. in 1940, the journal ] in 1965, and the magazine ] in 1980. | ||
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==Biography== | ||
| Reed was born in ] on September 28, 1917, the third son of Beryl Turner Reed and Morton Gilman Reed,. and grew up in ] and ]. He started a roofing company and worked briefly at a sheet metal factory for Pittsburgh Steel. In 1940, at age 23, he started up a scientific research company, renting a two-story building next to a junk yard along the C & O canal in Georgetown.<ref name="wapo">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102902082.html</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | Reed lived in ], for 40 years. In 1981 he earned an MBA from ] in ] at the age of 64. In 1994, he moved to Charleston, S.C. to take a position as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the College of Charleston, where he taught advanced management courses. He also lived in Philadelphia, Pa., Annapolis, Md., an Culpeper, Va. On October 25, 2007, in Charlottesville, Va., he died at the University of Virginia Medical Center of a subdural hematoma, at the age of 90.<ref>Wolfe, J. (2007). "Press Release Written for Obits.", Academic Press.</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Reed started the publications |
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| == Career == | |||
| ⚫ | He built Reed Research, Inc., and the Reed Research Foundation over the next 20 years to a net worth of $1 million. Along with Manley St. Denis, Johann Martinek, Gordon Yeh, James Ahlgren and others, he worked on issues ranging from safe land mine removal to electrocardiography to language learning laboratories, obtaining scores of patents in the process. Based on his work experience, he was admitted to membership in the Society of Naval Architects and received certification as a Professional Engineer (P.E.).<ref name="wapo" /> | ||
| ⚫ | Reed started the publications ''Directors & Boards'' and of ''Export Today.'' He was the author of several books, including the best-selling ''The Art of M & A'' (co-authored with his daughter, Alexandra Lajoux), and ''The Toxic Executive''.<ref>Cottle, Michelle. , '']'', July 18, 1999. Accessed October 31, 2007.</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | He built Reed Research, Inc., and the Reed Research Foundation over the next 20 years to a net worth of $1 million. Along with Manley St. Denis, Johann Martinek, Gordon Yeh, James Ahlgren and others, he worked on issues ranging from safe land mine removal to electrocardiography to language learning laboratories, obtaining scores of patents in the process. Based on his work experience, he was admitted to membership in the ] and received certification as a ] (P.E.).<ref name="wapo" /> | ||
| ⚫ | In 1962, after selling Reed Research to Log-Etronics, Inc., he started Tech-Audit as well as the Reed Research Institute for Creative Studies in the RCA Building on K Street in Washington, where he ran a number of publishing businesses. In the 1960s, he was actively involved in social issues, sponsoring programs to encourage inner-city entrepreneurship and writing an article on the poor of Appalachia. He also participated as a panelist in seminars of the Aspen Institute and as a guest lecturer at various universities including the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference and Georgetown University, where he once discussed ethics. | ||
| ⚫ | In 1962, after selling Reed Research to Log-Etronics, Inc., he started Tech-Audit as well as the Reed Research Institute for Creative Studies in the RCA Building on K Street in Washington, where he ran a number of publishing businesses. In the 1960s, he was actively involved in social issues, sponsoring programs to encourage inner-city entrepreneurship and writing an article on the poor of Appalachia. He also participated as a panelist in seminars of the Aspen Institute and as a guest lecturer at various universities including the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference and Georgetown University, where he once discussed ethics. He was an “ideas man” who in addition to starting publications also started a mergers newsletter and a website in his later years.<ref name="wapo" /> | ||
| He climbed Mount Fuji with his youngest daughter. | |||
| His is listed in Marquis Who’s Who. He was an “ideas man” who in addition to starting publications also started a mergers newsletter and a website in his later years.<ref name="wapo" /> | |||
| The third son of Beryl Turner Reed and Morton Gilman Reed, Reed was one of seven siblings who grew up in the Depression era and were instilled by their mother with an appreciation of poetry, history, and the arts. In the mid-1960s, he read the entire collection of Will and Ariel Durant’s History of Civilization and examples from its pages for the rest of his life. He composed music by ear and often turned his hand to poetry. At the time of death he was composing an opera based in Paris and focusing on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Heming . Also in the 1970s, he earned an MBA from ] in ] at the age of 64.<ref name="wapo" /> | |||
| Reed sang tenor and played the piano, organ, guitar, banjo, ukulele and accordion by ear at family gatherings. With his son-in-law Bernard Lajoux, he bought a French restaurant in Philadelphia, Pa., which they renamed La Peche d’Argent and later sold to Le Bec Fin. He had moved to that city after selling two of his publications to Hay Associates, where he worked as a consultant in the early 1980s.<ref name="wapo" /> | |||
| ⚫ | Reed lived in ], for 40 years. In 1994, he moved to Charleston, S.C. to take a position as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the College of Charleston, where he taught advanced management courses. |
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| Stanley Foster Reed | |
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| Born | (1917-09-28)September 28, 1917 Bogota, New Jersey |
| Died | October 25, 2007(2007-10-25) (aged 90) |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, Inventor, Publisher |
Stanley Foster Reed (1917-2007) was an entrepreneur, inventor, and publisher who founded Reed Research Inc. in 1940, the journal Mergers & Acquisitions in 1965, and the magazine Campaigns & Elections in 1980.
Biography
Reed was born in Bogota, New Jersey on September 28, 1917, the third son of Beryl Turner Reed and Morton Gilman Reed,. and grew up in Hartsdale and White Plains, New York. He started a roofing company and worked briefly at a sheet metal factory for Pittsburgh Steel. In 1940, at age 23, he started up a scientific research company, renting a two-story building next to a junk yard along the C & O canal in Georgetown.
Reed lived in McLean, Virginia, for 40 years. In 1981 he earned an MBA from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 64. In 1994, he moved to Charleston, S.C. to take a position as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the College of Charleston, where he taught advanced management courses. He also lived in Philadelphia, Pa., Annapolis, Md., an Culpeper, Va. On October 25, 2007, in Charlottesville, Va., he died at the University of Virginia Medical Center of a subdural hematoma, at the age of 90.
Career
Reed started the publications Directors & Boards and of Export Today. He was the author of several books, including the best-selling The Art of M & A (co-authored with his daughter, Alexandra Lajoux), and The Toxic Executive.
He built Reed Research, Inc., and the Reed Research Foundation over the next 20 years to a net worth of $1 million. Along with Manley St. Denis, Johann Martinek, Gordon Yeh, James Ahlgren and others, he worked on issues ranging from safe land mine removal to electrocardiography to language learning laboratories, obtaining scores of patents in the process. Based on his work experience, he was admitted to membership in the Society of Naval Architects and received certification as a Professional Engineer (P.E.).
In 1962, after selling Reed Research to Log-Etronics, Inc., he started Tech-Audit as well as the Reed Research Institute for Creative Studies in the RCA Building on K Street in Washington, where he ran a number of publishing businesses. In the 1960s, he was actively involved in social issues, sponsoring programs to encourage inner-city entrepreneurship and writing an article on the poor of Appalachia. He also participated as a panelist in seminars of the Aspen Institute and as a guest lecturer at various universities including the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference and Georgetown University, where he once discussed ethics. He was an “ideas man” who in addition to starting publications also started a mergers newsletter and a website in his later years.
Sources
- Bernstein, Adam. "Stanley Reed, 90; Helped Create Niche Magazines", The Washington Post, October 30, 2007. Accessed October 31, 2007.
References
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102902082.html
- Wolfe, J. (2007). "Press Release Written for Obits.", Academic Press.
- Cottle, Michelle. "WORKING; A Reign Of Terror", The New York Times, July 18, 1999. Accessed October 31, 2007.