Editing David Korten (section)

==Early life and career==
David Korten was born in [[Longview, Washington]], in 1937 and is a 1955 graduate of its [[R. A. Long High School]]. He received a [[master of business administration]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[Stanford University Graduate School of Business]]. He said: "My early career [after leaving Stanford in 1959] was devoted to setting up [[business school]]s in [[Poverty|low-income]] countries—starting with Ethiopia". He served during the [[Vietnam War]] as a captain in the [[United States Air Force]], undertaking U.S.-based teaching and organizational duties;<ref name=selfbio/> and for five and a half years was a visiting professor in the Harvard Business School. While at Stanford in the 1950s, he married Frances Fisher Korten, with whom he lives on [[Bainbridge Island, Washington|Bainbridge Island]] near [[Seattle, Washington]].{{cn|date=September 2023}}