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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Advanced Mana ement and Trade Union Programs' C J Men from Business and Labor onfze to B' Jlcbool AMPs undergo the rigors of registration informal discussion groups . . . Since its inception, the Advanced Management Program has gained stature and reputation as an outstanding accomplishment in business-university re- lations and cooperation. Promising executives from a variety of companies are carefully chosen for the thirteen-weeks course held twice a year. One class begins in September and ends in early December, the second runs from late in February to the latter part of May. Each session is limited to 160 men, and is directed by Assistant Dean Harvey P. Bishop. The program dates back to 1943, when the Busi- ness School, in cooperation with the United States Office of Education, initiated an executive training program known as the War Production Retraining Course. The purpose of the course was to assist the war effort by increasing the effectiveness of executives in rapidly expanding war industries. ln 1945, after seven sessions, the course was termi- nated. lmmediately requests were received from busi- ness organizations and industrial leaders that the course be continued as an executive development program. ln view of this interest, the Business School inaugurated in the fall of 1945 the Advanced Man- agement Program, a concentrated training program for experienced business and military men. The program's return to the campus provides an opportunity for participants to meet other executives, consider business principles and ideas away from the daily turmoil, meet and talk with prominent pro- fessors, and gain a fresh outlook and point of view. Through case studies and discussions important busi- ness questions are considered in an academic atmos- phere, thus releasing the free, unfettered expression of ideas. All types of executives live, work, and play together, something unattainable under other than these surroundings. . . . may keep some up too late at night TUPS H056 viewpoints w