Theodore Levitt

Theodore Levitt
BornMarch 1, 1925
Vollmerz, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Germany
DiedJune 28, 2006
Alma materAntioch College
Ohio State University
OccupationEconomist
EmployerHarvard Business School

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: "Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer".[1]

  1. ^ Levitt, T (1983) The Marketing Imagination, New York: Free Press.