Harvard Business School - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Radcliffe Management Training Program: Business .Ycloool B1'oaa'ens its Scope Professor Paul Lawrence enters into post class discussion The Management Training Program is sponsored iointly by Radcliffe College and the Harvard Business School. Although HBS has been associated with the program for many years, an oFficial announcement in February T954 defined the present close relation- ship. Under the new arrangement, Radcliffe houses and supervises the program. The Business School pro- vides most of the faculty, helps select students, and is responsible for the educational program. A joint committee directs over-all activity. The program is designed to aid in the preparation of women for ad- ministrative posts, and to establish a familiarity and understanding of business problems. The one-year course of instruction consists of three classroom sessions divided by two periods of actual work experience. Work experience involves four weeks at unskilled labor and six weeks of assisting at an advanced staff or line position. Courses are within the general areas of human relations, retail- ing, management methods, labor relations, commun- ity relations, and accounting and use of basic figures or graphs. A certificate is awarded upon completion of training. Students enrolled in the program are typically college graduates, although well qualified persons are sometimes accepted without this educa- tional background. More than four hundred fifty women have completed the Management Training Program since it was established seventeen years ago. an informal discussion group in a dormitory room wrt,-. I l

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Each Division has its board of directors in the form of a faculty committee of about 12 members, which decides upon the general policies for future study. A recent re-emphasis of the aims of project research by Professor Fox has outlined four major areas for con- centration of future studies: research in business opera- tions-the tools, processes and philosophies that man- agement uses, more emphasis on the application of the behavioral science techniques to the solution of admin- istrative problems, development of some building blocks for the construction of an economic theory which can be realistically applied to business problems such as the business cycle, and the nature of competition. Professors Haigh and McLean correct proofs of their new book on the oil industry with Miss Ruth Norton 5 , t , ,, i . ' P ' 1 . t L ffl'- the Research Policy Committee before a meeting Examples of the first are a study of The Administra- tion and Control of Re-Equipment Decisions, recently begun by Professor Ross A. Walker, and a proposed in- vestigation of the use of electronic computers in solving control problems. The human relations program, made famous under Professor Elton Mayo, was carried forward in one direction by Professors Fritz Roethlisberger and George Lombard, using a grant from the Ford Founda- tion. The objective of uncovering the practical bases of a useful economic theory is being advanced by works such as Professor John Lintner's Profits and the Function- ing of the Economy, financed by the Rockefeller Foun- dation. i - j Funds are provided by the Asso- i 5 ciates of the School both for project research and case development, J and additional funds for research -' j come both from companies particu- l 9 larly interested in a specific project x and from contributions to a general l -tv i 1 J fund. The total amount used in 1953 - ffl was about 5500,000, of which ap- proximately one-quarter went for . cases and the rest for research. The Bureau of Business Research, . active in the first publications of the School and concerned with the op- erating results of retail stores, since the war has been taken over by the Division of Research, and it is now primarily concerned with the com- ff N - pilation of statistics.

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