What's wrong with the National Association of Manufacturers? Enough businessmen had posed the question to set young (34) Alfred S. Cleveland, University of California lecturer and a business consultant, poring over N.A.M.'s records for the last 52 years. In the current Harvard Business Review, he summed up what he thought was wrong.
Though N.A.M. has many "forward-looking and enlightened individuals" in it, the organization's basic objectives "have not altered appreciably since the turn of the century." The objectives, according to Cleveland, have been to 1) discourage organized labor; 2) minimize the taxes on industry and managerial compensation;...
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