Remington RandGenerals MacArthur and Groves influence

After WW II, I understand Generals Douglas MacArthur and Leslie Groves joined the management of Remington Rand. R-R had bought out Univac and was introducing electronic computers. R-R also had a line of punched card tab machines and typewriters that competed with IBM.

Would anyone know how much influence these generals had with the company? Were they a help or a hinderance?

MacArthur, of course, is very well known. Actually, I can't see him doing that well in the business world because he was very egotistical. Running a modest sized corporation is a big come-down from running a country (he was in charge of Japan during the occupation).

Gen. Leslie Groves was from the Army Corps of Engineers. He built the Pentagon building and then the Manhattan Project (three mbuttive top secret cities with huge industrial facilities and laboratories). He was very smart and capable and very hard driving. He knew how to get things done. If he could adjust to civilian life I could see his talents being a help to R-R. His memoirs, "Now It Can Be Told", publ in 1962, talk only of the Manhattan Project, not R-R.