1. David C Korten was born on 1937 and is an American author, former professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems".
David Korten was born in Longview, Washington, in 1937 and is a 1955 graduate of its R A Long High School.
David Korten received a master of business administration and Ph.
David Korten served during the Vietnam War as a captain in the United States Air Force, undertaking US-based teaching and organizational duties; and for five and a half years was a visiting professor in the Harvard Business School.
David Korten served as the Harvard Business School adviser to the Nicaragua-based Central American Institute of Business Administration.
David Korten subsequently joined the staff of the Harvard Institute for International Development, where he headed a Ford Foundation-funded project to strengthen the organization and management of national family planning programs.
David Korten has written that he became disenchanted with the official aid system and devoted his last five years in Asia to "working with leaders of Asian non-governmental organizations on identifying the root causes of development failure in the region and building the capacity of civil society organizations to function as strategic catalysts of national- and global-level change".
David Korten formed the view that the poverty, growing inequality, environmental devastation, and social disintegration he was observing in Asia was being experienced in nearly every country in the world, including the United States and other "developed" countries.
David Korten returned to the US in 1992 and has assisted in raising public consciousness of the political and institutional consequences of economic globalization and the expansion of corporate power at the expense of democracy, equity, and environmental protection.
David Korten is a founding board member, emeritus, of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and a member of the Club of Rome.
David Korten argues that corporations are modern versions of empire, both being social organizations based on hierarchies, chauvinism, and domination through violence.