Apparently everyone uses the same sources...
From the Boston Globe:Clarification: An obituary Thursday on Dr. Theodore Levitt, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, said he had coined the word ``globalization." The business school said that although Dr. Levitt popularized the concept with ``The Globalization of Markets," an influential article he published in 1983 in the Harvard Business Review, the word had previously been in use.
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BELMONT, Mass. — In obituaries July 6 and July 7 for Theodore Levitt, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Harvard Business School, reported erroneously that he had coined the term "globalization." The school now says that Levitt, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review, helped to popularize the term in a 1983 article for the publication, but he did not coin it.
From the New York Times:
An obituary and headline on Friday about Theodore Levitt, a marketing scholar at the Harvard Business School, referred incorrectly to the origin of the word globalization. While Mr. Levitt’s work was closely associated with the idea of globalization in economics, and while he published a respected paper in 1983 popularizing the term, he did not coin the word. (It was in use at least as early as 1944 in other senses and was used by others in discussing economics at least as early as 1981.) (Go to Article)
By the way, the 1944 reference the Times cited is from the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Didn't anyone see fit to look up the word to see that the earliest citation was before Professor Levitt was out of college?
newspapers, media, errors, obituaries
posted by Unknown @ 7/12/2006 08:49:00 AM
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