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D. Ronald Daniel
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Fred Gluck

D. Ronald Daniel (1930 – 2023) was a longtime top senior partner and director at management consultancy

managing director (chief executive) from 1976 to 1988. He graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in mathematics in 1952 and received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
in 1954.

Career

After graduating with his MBA in 1954, Daniel served as an officer of the

Fred Gluck
— and is currently senior partner emeritus of the firm.

At McKinsey, Daniel developed the concept of "success factors",

critical success factors, those "areas of [business] activity that should receive constant and careful attention from management".[2] He hired and mentored future managing director Rajat Gupta.[3] He was Jeffrey Skilling's former boss before Skilling became CEO of Enron.[4]

In 2004, he described himself as "the bridge between McKinsey's founding generation and the present".[5]

Outside McKinsey, he was a director of Yum! Brands and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings.[4]

Non-profit

Daniel has a longtime affiliation with

Harvard Management Company
, which oversees over $20 billion in assets and endowments.

Daniel also holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Wesleyan and is chairman emeritus of the school's board of trustees. He is a member of the board of Thirteen/WNET (New York's public broadcasting station). He is also a member of the board of the Brookings Institution, and a trustee of Rockefeller University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.[4][6]

References

  1. ^ Daniel, D. Ronald, "Management Information Crisis", Harvard Business Review, Sept.–Oct. 1961
  2. Rockart, John F., Chief Executives Define Their Own Data Needs
    , Harvard Business Review, March 1979, accessed 24 November 2022
  3. ^ "Alumni Center | McKinsey & Company". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  4. ^ a b c "Untitled Document". uni-muenster.de.
  5. ^ "Alumni Achievement Awards - Alumni - Harvard Business School". www.alumni.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  6. ^ "RHJ International". rhji.com.
Business positions
Preceded by
Managing director of McKinsey & Company, Inc.

1976 –1988 		Succeeded by
Fred Gluck


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