Harvard Business School - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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

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The Nutz'0nul Arfoczution of Student Pewonnel Admz'ni.rtmt01'.r This imposing name was shortened to the Deans Group for purposes of communication, and on Janu- ary 10, 1954, about 75 college deans from all over the country gathered for discussion of student ad- ministration problems. Their program consisted of morning and afternoon classes, with assigned study groups in the evenings. For one member of each group there were additional sessions for the prepara- tion of cases to be used. On three evenings the deans attended talks by H. F. Smiddy of General Electric, Dr. Clarence Faust of the Ford Foundation, and Pro- fessor Pearson Hunt. The object of the meeting was to try to determine whether the methods used at the School can be profitably applied to problems of student adminis- tration. Although the deans were not financially equipped to demonstrate their enthusiasm over the success of the experiment in the manner of the Young Presidents' Organization below, there was every in- dication on the part of the School and the Deans that it achieved equal success. 'Aj C. a group of deans prepares a case for study Young Preyzklentr' Organization: Success in the Tlairtzef On January 17, 1954, an unusual group of 85 young business men and one woman arrived for a week of classes and discussions. All were presidents of companies with over 51,000,000 annual sales, all attained this position before they were 39 years of age, and none are now over 44. lt all began in 1949, when Ray Hickok, president at 27 of the Hickok Manufacturing Company, felt that it would be a good idea for young men like himself, who headed large organizations, to get together and exchange ideas. Together with Arthur Reis of Robert Reis and Company he selected a list of 450 men of whom 44 attended the first meeting in October 1950. Since then membership has grown to about 600, distributed over 39 states. Their arrival at the School marked the beginning of an experiment on both sides: on the part of the YPO's to see iust what the School has to offer, and on the part of the School to see whether any value could be gotten from such a short meeting as one week. While the YPO's were inclined at first to want to make snap decisions without getting at the heart of the problem, by the end of the week they were inclined to do more listening and less talking. By Thursday, according to Professor Ralph Hower, who took about two-thirds of their classes, they began to generate more light and less heat, and he had the highest praise for their efforts. There was great enthusiasm about the success of the experiment on both sides, evidenced on the part of the YPO's by a gift of 55,725 to prepare cases about new and growing enterprises.