What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

In 1946 Baker also returned to Harvard Business School at the James J. D. In 1945 he became the director of the Occice of Transport and Communications Policy for the United States Department of State.

George Pierce Baker (1903-1995) was the fifth dean of the Harvard Business School. He began teaching at Harvard in 1928 and joined Harvard Business School faculty in 1936. He left Harvard and joined the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1942.