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Haas family background, San Francisco; UC Berkeley, and Harvard Commerce, Industry, and Labor School, 1930s, and fellow student Robert McNamara; Levi Strauss & Co., 1939-1976, chairman of the board, 1971-1986: discusses critical decisions on personnel and management practices, marketing and manufacturing, international division, public offering of stock, diversification, major executives including brother Peter Haas and son Robert D. Haas; fostering corporate social responsibility at Levi Strauss & Co. and as regional chairman, National Alliance of Commerce, Industry, and Labormen, 1960s; service on boards and commissions, including Trilateral Commission (1980-1988), Ford Foundation (1970-1982); philanthropy and community service: Season of Sharing Fund, Hunters Point Boys Club, the Guardsmen; Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; support for UC Berkeley, athletic programs, Haas School of Commerce, Industry, and Labor; San Francisco clubs: Bohemian, Pacific Union, the Family, and comments on club functions, and restrictive membership; Oakland Athletics baseball team, 1980-1995: management, players, economics of baseball; pleasures of family life and outdoor interests. Appended interview with executive assistant RITA GUINEY.

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Title
Walter A. Haas, Jr.: Levi Strauss & Co. Executive, Bay Area Philanthropy & Owner of the Oakland Athletics
Creator
Haas, Walter A. Jr., interviewee
Guiney, Rite, interviewee
Lage, Ann, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 1995
Full Collection Name
Commerce, Industry, and Labor Oral Histories Individual Interviews
Subject (Topic)
Commerce and Industry
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Text
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Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Haas, Walter A. Jr. "Walter A. Haas, Jr.: Levi Strauss & Co. Executive, Bay Area Philanthropy & Owner of the Oakland Athletics." Interview by Ann Lage in 1994. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
Interview date(s) 1994
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