Beverly - George Cabot Lodge died on January 4, 2026, having had a rich life in government and academia. Notably, he was Assistant Secretary of Labor, a Senatorial candidate and a co-creator of the enormously popular BGIE – Business Government and the International Economy at Harvard Business School where he was on the faculty from 1963 to 1997. He also taught Human Resource Management; Leadership, Values and Decision Making; and Business History in the Master's Program.

After service in the U.S. Navy (1945-1946), he graduated from Harvard College cum laude in 1950 and became a political reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald. In 1954 he joined the United States Department of Labor as Director of Capital Information, and four years later was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs by President Eisenhower. He was reappointed by President Kennedy in 1961. Lodge was the United States Delegate to the International Labor Organization and was elected Chairman of the organization's Governing Body in 1960. At the end of his government service in 1961, he was named one of the ten outstanding young men in the United States by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. He also received the Arthur S. Fleming Award as one of the ten most outstanding young men in the federal government and the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of Labor. He wrote of his government experiences in Spearheads of Democracy; The Role of Labor in Developing Countries (Harper & Row, 1962).

In 1961, Lodge was appointed lecturer at Harvard Business School. He left the following year to become the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Massachusetts. He returned to the school in 1963.

During the 1960's, he played a major role in the establishment of the Central American Institute of Business Administration (Instituto Centroamèricano de Administracion de Empresas) – known as INCAE – now one of the leading business schools in the world. His research during those years took him to Veraguas Province, Panama, where he studied the introduction of political and economic change. This work resulted in a book, Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America (Knopf 1970). In 1970 he wrote several articles in Foreign Affairs that led to the establishment by Congress of a new government agency – The InterAmerican Foundation, where he served as Vice Chairmen for seven years.

Lodge became Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard in 1968 and received tenure in 1972. He played a leading role in the design and development of several courses relating to the global political and economic environment of business, comparative business-government relations, and comparative ideology. He has published more than forty articles, twelve in the Harvard Business Review, two of which received the McKinsey Award for the best article of the year. Besides the two books mentioned above, he published The New American Ideology (Knopf, 1975); The American Disease (Knopf, 1984); U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy edited with Bruce R. Scott (Harvard Business School Press 1984); Ideology and National Competitiveness: An Analysis of Nine Countries edited with Esra S. Vogel (Harvard Business School Press 1987); Comparative Business – Government Relations (Prentice Hall 1990); Perestroika for America: Restructuring Business-Government relations for World Competitiveness (Harvard Business School Press 1990); Managing Globalization in the Age of Interdependence (Pfeiffer & Company 1995); A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty with Craig Wilson (Princeton University Press 2006).

In 1991, Lodge was named a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow by the Government of Singapore and in 1994 received an honorary doctorate from INCAE. In 1995, The New American Ideology received the annual book award of the Academy of Management. From 1997 to 2007, he was a Director of Nordic American Tanker Shipping. He has been a member of The Council on Foreign Relations since 1959.

Lodge was born July 7, 1927, in Boston MA., the son of Emily Sears and Henry Cabot Lodge. He had one brother Henry Sears Lodge. In 1949, he married Nancy Kunhardt of Morristown NJ and together had 6 children, 13 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Nancy died in 1997 and Lodge married Susan Alexander Powers, who died in 2024. Lodge loved the sea and was an avid sailor from age six and throughout his life.

Funeral services will be private. Arrangements by the Campbell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot Street, Beverly. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com