Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Malcolm Baldrige Biography. Share Facebook. Malcolm Baldrige — Performance excellence , Baldrige award and Baldrige Framework and Criteria. Contacts Baldrige Customer Service. Howard M. Edit source History Talk 0. For his son and U. Secretary of Commerce, see Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. Retrieved The rumor was that she had a French lover, and my cousin Keating Coffey heard from his parents that Omaha people talked a lot about it, just as they did about the cigarettes she came home puffing.
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A year later he was promoted once again and became the CEO of the said company. In he became the Chairman of the Board.
He turned the company around. Sobel, p. He was also a trustee for the Swiss reinsurance Company and member of the Business Council and the Council on Foreign relations. He was not only good at running profitable companies he was also interested in politics. It can be argued that Baldrige always wanted to be business and politics at the same time.
His father was not only a lawyer but also served in the Nebraska state legislature. His father also served as a Congressman from to Levy, p. When Malcolm Baldrige was in his early forties he started to become active in the Republican Party and from to he served as a delegate to the Republican convention. After Reagan took the White House the new president remembered the people who helped him get elected as president. One month after Reagan assumed the presidency in , he chose Baldrige to become the 26 th secretary of Commerce of the United States of America and he also easily won the confirmation for the said cabinet post Levy, p.
Later on his passion to improve the the level of competence of business leaders and their organizations was the main reason why his name is well-remembered even to this day. Aside from his business and political dealings, Baldrige was also interested in a host of different things and one of which is the rodeo. In his private life, away from the spotlight, Baldrige was a professional steer roper.
On July 25, while practicing for a rodeo competition, in Walnut Creek, California, he fell from a horse and died a tragic death Sobel, p. But this was not the end of his story. In the mids it was apparent to many U. The main purpose of this law is to encourage American businesses, educational institutions and health care organizations to aim for excellence in the creation of goods and in the provision of services. Behind this need for an award is the growing alarm that foreign competition was slowly overtaking the United States.
The quality of foreign imports is slowly eclipsing American products. The award was an incentive to push US companies to increase their capability to become a global leader in their chosen industry by improving their manufacturing systems and quality control Sallis, p. It easily became a much-coveted prize in the business world. The former President Ronald Reagan was the first to hand out the award in Milakovich, p.
These are trusted brands. Leading the Administration's effort to pass the Export Trading Company Act of , Baldrige was named by the President to chair a Cabinet-level Trade Strike Force to search out unfair trading practices and recommend ways to end those practices.
He was the leader in the reform of the nation's antitrust laws. Baldrige's award-winning managerial excellence contributed to long-term improvement in economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in government. Prior to entering the Cabinet, Baldrige was chairman and chief executive officer of Scovill, Inc. Having joined Scovill in , he is credited with leading its transformation to a highly diversified manufacturer of consumer, housing and industrial goods from a financially troubled brass mill.
Baldrige began his career in the manufacturing industry in as a foundry hand in an iron company in Connecticut and rose to the presidency of that company by He was born in Omaha, Nebraska to H. Malcolm Baldrige, and graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch hand and earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit. Baldrige once appeared on the television game show To Tell the Truth pretending to be rodeo tie-down roping champion Dean Oliver. Malcolm Baldrige died July 25, , in a rodeo accident in California at the age of sixty-four.
His service as Secretary of Commerce was one of the longest in history. He is said to have been possibly the most colorful Secretary of Commerce and one of the most beloved. He is survived by his wife Margaret and his two children. Baldrige was a proponent of quality management as a key to this country's prosperity and long-term strength. He took a personal interest in the legislation that became the Quality Improvement Act of and helped draft one of the early versions.
In recognition of his contributions, Congress named the annual award see Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for product quality in his honor.
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