Bio: Habib Ladjevardi

Habib Ladjevardi has been director of the Iranian Oral History Project at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies since 1981 and chair of the editorial board of the Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series since 1990. Born in Tehran, he grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and received his B.S. from Yale University, M.B.A. from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Dr. Ladjevardi returned to Iran in 1963 to work in his family's business, the Behshahr Industrial Group, where he was one of the managing directors. He was the principal founder of the Iran Center for Management Studies in Tehran (established in 1970 in cooperation with members of the faculty of the Harvard Business School), where he taught Public Policy until 1978. He also served on a number of boards and councils in the private and public sectors. Dr. Ladjevardi is the author of Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1985).

Abstract

Iranian Oral History Project, Harvard University Personal Values and Corporate Policies: The Case of Haj Seyed Mahmoud Ladjevardi and the Behshahr Industrial Group

Based on interviews and private memoirs, the speaker will describe the upbringing and development of personal values of Haj Seyed Mahmoud Ladjevardi and the overwhelming impact of these values on strategic decisions and policies of the Behshahr Industrial Group.