C. Jackson "Jack" Grayson, Jr. (born October 8, 1923) is the chairman of APQC, dean of two business schools, head of the U.S. Price Commission (1971), a farmer, newspaper reporter and FBI agent. In 1977 he founded APQC as a private sector, non-profit organization.

C. Jackson Grayson was the U.S. chairman of the Price Commission in the United States from 1971 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

. In that position, Grayson oversaw price controls and the process through which companies request permission to increase prices. Grayson gained exposure to productivity

Productivity

Productivity is a measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output divided by the total input...

 issues and how they related to product pricing. Grayson went on to found the Productivity and Quality Center in 1977 where he now resides as chairman and oversees the organization's public education improvement initiatives.

Education

B.B.A., Tulane University

Tulane University

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, 1944

M.B.A., Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania:Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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, 1947

D.B.A., Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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, 1969

Academic career

• Instructor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1947–1949
• Asst. Professor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1953–1955
• Asst. Professor: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1958–1959
• Associate Professor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1959–1963
• Associate Dean: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1961–1963
• Professor: IMDE:International Institute for Management Development
  International Institute for Management Development
  IMD - International Institute for Management Development is a non profit business school located in Lausanne, Switzerland.- History & Mission :...
  
  , Management Development Institute, Switzerland, 1963–1964
• Visiting Professor: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Spring 1967
• Dean and Professor: School of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1963–1968
• Visiting Professor: INSEAD
  INSEAD
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  , Management Development Institute, Fontainebleau, France, Summers 1972, 1973, 1975
• Dean and Professor: School of Business Administration, Southern Methodist University
  Southern Methodist University
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  , 1968–1975

Positions

• Certified Public Accountant, Louisiana, 1943–present
• Newspaper reporter, New Orleans Item, 1949–1950
• Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Federal Bureau of Investigation
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  , Washington, D.C., 1950–1952
• Farm Manager, C. J. Grayson Farm, (cotton, cattle, soybeans) Fort Necessity, Louisiana, 1952
• Partner, James E. O'Neill & Associates, an export-import business, New Orleans, 1953
• Asst. to the Vice President for Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1953–1955
• Chairman, U.S. Price Commission, Washington, D.C., 1971–1973
• Chairman, American Productivity & Quality Center, 1975–present
• Consultant Panel, Comptroller General of the United States, 1978–1991
• Member of Three Presidential Commissions:
• President Richard Nixon: U.S. Price Commission, 1971
• President Carter: Commission for a National Agenda for the 80's, 1980
• President Reagan: National Productivity Advisory Committee, 1982.
• Retired member of the Board of Directors for Lever Bros., Sun Company, Overhead Door, Tyler Corporation, Whitman Corporation, Potlatch Corporation, Oryx Energy, Harris Corporation, Infomart, Browning-Ferris Industries
• Member of Board of Directors, Global Alliance for Transnational Education:http://www.edugate.org/

Articles and Monographs

Grayson has written over 60 monographs, papers, and articles in various publications.

Books

• Decisions Under Uncertainty: Drilling Decisions by Oil and Gas Operators, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, 1960

• Confessions of a Price Controller, Dow Jones-Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 1974

• American Business: A Two-Minute Warning, co-authored with Carla O'Dell, The Free Press, New York, 1988

• If Only We Knew What We Know, co-authored with Carla O'Dell, The Free Press, New York, 1998

Awards

• 2000 Named by Teleos:http://teleos.com/, an English research firm, as one of the 10 “Most Admired Knowledge Leaders” in North America.
• 2003 The [American Society for Quality] (ASQ) awards Grayson its Distinguished Service Medal. The medal honors the lifetime contribution of any person who has been recognized as a long-term enabler, catalyst or prime mover in the quality movement.
• 2006 Southern Methodist University names an endowed MBA scholarship in entrepreneurial studies and an annual faculty innovation award in Grayson's honor.

External links

1. APQC http://www.apqc.org
2. Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative http://www.apqc.org/osbc
3. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (NIST)http://www.quality.nist.gov
4. Public School Insights Interview with Grayson http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/visionaries/JackGrayson