Marvin L. Recht
Marvin L. Recht, an Indianapolis based management consultant, is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at Butler University where he teaches undergraduate level courses in the College of Business Administration, and has been a business practitioner for over 50 years including a 35-year career in General Motors leading the Human Resources function in complex manufacturing organizations.
Recht graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1957 with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. In 1981, he completed The Executive Program at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
The first five years of Recht's career in General Motors were in manufacturing supervision at various plant and divisional locations. Beginning in 1963, Recht then began a series of assignments which included duties in benefits as well as salaried and hourly administration. Responsibilities while subsequently assigned to General Motors' Detroit headquarters included corporate human resources positions as Director, Policy and Employee Relations and Director, Central Office Personnel Department which involved executive compensation, salaried union avoidance, employee relations, and executive progression and succession planning responsibilities.
In 1983, Recht transferred from Detroit to Indianapolis as Allison Gas Turbine Division's General Director of Personnel & Communications, a role in which he had total responsibility for salaried and labor relations, government and industrial security, health & safety, medical, organization development, and training, as well as public relations and internal communications. During this period, Allison (now known as Rolls Royce, PLC), with approximately 7,000 employees, was the largest private employer in Indianapolis and a major supplier of aircraft power plants to the commercial and military aviation industries.
In 1992, Recht retired from Allison and General Motors to establish his consulting practice while simultaneously assuming his position at Butler University. Recht's consulting work is national in scope including assignments with the Hughes Missile System Company (now a part of the Raytheon Company), Methodist and Indiana University hospitals (now Clarian Health Partners), and The Palmer Group (Dodge car and truck and Kenworth truck dealerships in Indiana and Ohio). Recht has served as a part-time Consultant for DBM, an International career transition firm, with one of its offices located in Indianapolis since 1998. Most recently (November, 2004 until mid-July, 2005), Recht served as the interim Director of Human Resources for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, one of only 17 full-time symphony orchestras in the United States.
With respect to community involvement, Recht has served on the Board of Directors of the Visiting Nurse Service, Inc., of Indiana (and currently serves on the Board’s Human Resources and Nominating Committees) and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. He is also a member of the Human Resources Council of the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis as well as the Human Resources Committee of the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Recht resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
September, 2008
