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DAVID A. DUKE
Pages 84-87

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... , he accepted a position at Corning Glass Works as a research scientist and moved his family to Corning, New York. He was recognized as a brilliant researcher and talented manager during his long career with the company, which in 1968 sent him to Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Development Program.
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... It is the technology of catalytic convertors, diesel soot filters, and gas particulate filters worldwide to this day. Not long after this success, Dave became general manager of Corning's new Telecommunications Products Division, which had six employees, virtually no sales, and the goal of creating an optical waveguide business.
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... Barnes Award in Chemical Research Management from the American Chemical Society. He was a member of the Engineering National Advisory Committee of the University of Utah College of Engineering, and for the National Academies served on the Committee on Japan (1993–99)
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