Honoring Homer Sarasohn
Homer Sarasohn
1916-2001

Japan's Post-War Recovery
Homer's farewell address upon leaving Japan in 1950

CCS: Industrial Management
The fundamental training tool Homer used to help rebuild the Japanese economy

Creating Japan's New Industrial Management: The Americans as Teachers
       Kenneth Hopper
       (copyright restrictions
       removed by author)

Remembering Homer Sarasohn
       David Howard

Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn?
       Richard Donkin

A Lesson Learned, A Lesson Forgotten
       Robert Chapman Wood

How Homer Sarasohn Brought Industrial Quality to Japan
       Robert X. Cringely

Quality or Else
       Lloyd Dobyns, et.al.

Profiles in Quality
       Louis E. Schultz

Quality Assurance and Reliability in the Japanese Electronics Industry
       Michael Pecht
       William R. Boulton

Deming: The Man and the Legend
       Jerry Bowles

When the Boss Starts to Talk About Quality Should I Really Listen?
       Myron Tribus

 

Homer Sarasohn
pioneer in quality management

A leader's main obligation is to secure the faith and respect of those under him. The leader must himself be the finest example of what he would like to see in his followers.

—Homer Sarasohn, 1948


Shirley Sarasohn
Shirley Sarasohn, Homer's constant source of support.
1917-2001

Homer Sarasohn and American Involvement in the
Evolution of Quality Management in Japan, 1945—1950

by Nicholas I. Fisher
School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney
ValueMetrics Australia

International Statistical Review (2009), 77, 2, 276-299
pre-publication version (284KB)

CCS course graduates
Graduates of the CCS management course, with Homer Sarasohn, Frank Polkinghorn, and Charles Protzman front row center, left to right. Osaka, 1950.

MORE PHOTOS OF
HOMER IN JAPAN


Contents

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Biography
 Sarasohn's Death Lamented
Yoshio Kondo
Distinguished Professor of Kyoto University, 2002
• Documents
          Letters
 CCS Memos
 Articles & Speeches
 Articles by Japanese Authors
 Hopper Archives
Audio & Video
 Interviews
 Speeches
 Other
Photos

 

The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream by Ken and Will Hopper examines the ways in which Americans developed the ability to manage the remarkable manufacturing companies emerging in the mid-20th century, and then shared that know-how with the rest of the world. Chapter 10 addresses the contribution that Homer Sarasohn and his colleagues made to industrial development in Japan following World War II.

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