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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...
...AMP's have mixed reactions to their role as forty-four year old students. "We have one real disadvantage over the regular M.B.A. students," an AMP declared "in that most of us have made up our minds already about certain things. At home you are an important man in your community--here you're just another student...
...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...