JAMES BAUGHMAN

1936 - 2022

BAUGHMAN--James Porter James "Jim" Porter Baughman died peacefully on July 31, 2022 of complications from Parkinson's disease. Jim was born on August 8, 1936 in Houston, TX to John Lafferty and Marie Augusta (Seefeld) Baughman. He graduated from Rockport Texas High School and Rice University (BA 1957). He earned both a master's degree (1958) and a PhD (1962) from Tulane University, specializing in the maritime history of the United States. While at Tulane, he served as Editorial Assistant of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review (now the Journal of American History). Jim joined the faculty of the Harvard University School of Business in 1962. For the following eighteen years, he taught in Harvard's MBA, DBA and executive programs worldwide, focusing on business history and policy. While at the Harvard Business School, Jim authored or co-authored several books. He served as Editor of Harvard's Business History Review and the Kress Library Publications, Associate Director of Research, and Director of the Doctoral Program. In his capacity as Director of the International Teachers Program, an annual three-month course conducted in Europe to enhance the teaching skills of university professors of management, he organized a consortium of seven European universities to take over the program from its Harvard base. Jim was granted academic tenure and awarded an honorary MA by Harvard University in 1972. In 1976, on leave from Harvard, he was appointed President of the Iran Center for Management Studies in Tehran, a graduate professional school of business based on the Harvard model. He led the Center through the early days of the Iranian Revolution, returning to Harvard in 1979. While at Harvard, Jim consulted on leadership and organizational matters for top management of a number of large corporations and for the Smithsonian Institution where he collaborated on the design and production of a major award-winning exhibition on productivity. In 1980, Jim left the Harvard Business School to work for General Electric as corporate head of Management Development, Organizational Planning and Executive Compensation. In that capacity, he led the restructuring of GE's corporate training institute in Crotonville, NY into a model of exec- utive education recognized throughout the world. Jim was involved with GE's acquisition of a number of companies and with business development teams in fourteen countries. He led on-site best practice exchanges with several multinational companies. Jim joined J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1994 as Managing Director and Head of Leadership and Organizational Development. In 1998, until his retirement in the early 2000's, Jim established and ran a consulting practice specializing in coaching "teams-at- the-top" and creating leadership development systems. Jim served as an Adjunct Professor at Boston University and Northwestern University and has lectured at institutions throughout the world. He served on the Board of Directors of INCAE and IPADE and on the Supervisory Board of the United States Coast Guard Academy. He was a founding member of the Conference Board's Council on Human Resources. Jim is a former Chairman of the Board of the Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT, and a former trustee of the GE Foundation, the Institute for Environment and Business, the Iran-American Society and the Hagley Museum and Library. As a young man, Jim became an Eagle Scout. He also served for eighteen years in the United States Coast Guard Reserve (advancing from Seaman Recruit to Lieutenant Commander). An amateur musician, Jim played the euphonium in community bands in Connecticut and New York and played in the Hudson Valley Wind Symphony for several years. Jim's other interests included classical music, opera, theatre, graphic arts, archaeology, reading and travel (having visited over 60 countries in his lifetime). As a volunteer at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, he researched and wrote a biography of the archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (pioneer excavator of Persepolis). He also volunteered at the International Surgical Science Museum in Chicago, Illinois, where he collaborated in the design and production of a permanent exhibit entitled Milestones in Medical Imaging: From X-Ray to Nuclear Medicine. Jim was a member of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 27 years, Deborah Holden Baughman. His previous marriages to Susan Strobeck and Cynthia Hawkins ended in divorce. Jim is also survived by his two sons, John F. Baughman (Caroline) and William H. Baughman (Vicky); two stepchildren, Gregory Morris (Elizabeth) and Emily Morris (John Winterkorn); and six grandchildren, Thomas Bate, Scarlett and Lucy Baughman, Margaret and James Morris, and Theodore Winterkorn. A son, Peter J. Baughman, died in childhood. A private service has been held. Donations in Jim's honor can be made to the Fourth Presbyterian Church-Tower Brass, https://www.fourthchurch org/give-online/ or Mystic Seaport Museum, https://checkout.mysticseaport.org/all/donate/details/181 Please note James Baughman Library in the Tribute box.