Word: amp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Advanced Management executives--"AMP's", for short--are forced to deal with business problems through discussion and insight, rather than throught time-tested methods, the coffee hour debate in Hamilton Lounge or 2:00 .m. bull session is no more uncommon among greying sales amnagers than among freshmen in the Yard...
Benevolently exiled, because, with the exception of dormitory living, AMP's are supported "in the style to which they are accustomed" during their stay at Harvard. Lobster, steaks and liquor flow in the upper regions of Kresge Hall, far from the pot roast and New England boiled dinners of the first floor serving line. "Of course, we wouldn't make our lowest salesman stay in accomodations the size of these dormitory rooms," a Texas vice-president declared, "But it's clean...
...AMP's are in the same boat. There is a period of somewhat uneasy adjustment--to the role of "just another student," and to the drop in prestige which comes as you realize your opinions and insights of twenty years' business experience are different from and perhaps no better than those of the production engineer who is your roommate...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...
...mine. Thirty years ago his lofty character and guileless manner seemed no denial of the deepest insight into human as well as cosmic affairs. Then ... I realized he was not just greatly simple, but naive and biased . . . I have also met mathematical physicists without Einstein's outward simplicity&#amp;151;men of ruthless objectivity in their field-who somehow lacked the experience or will to make even a less than profound analysis of world events. Thus, I reluctantly admit there are scientists whose great accomplishments have given some of their views an undeserved weight in public matters . . . What kind...