Harvard Business School - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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.

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