Early Life and Career
David Korten was born in Longview, Washington in 1937 and is a 1955 graduate of Longview's R. A. Long High School. He received a Master of Business Administration and PhD from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He says: "My early career was devoted to setting up business schools in low-income countries - starting with Ethiopia". He served during the Vietnam War as a captain in the United States Air Force, undertaking US-based teaching and organizational duties; and for 5½ years was a visiting professor in the Harvard Business School. While at Stanford in the 1950s, he married Frances Fisher Korten, with whom he now lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington.
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