Word: donham
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Lombard, an authority on human relations in business and industry, served as an assistant dean of the Harvard Business School for four years before he joined the faculty in 1940. With the late Dean Wallace B. Donham, he helped introduce a course in human relations into Harvard College...
Aluminium magnate Charles M. Hall died in 1914, willing his fortune to advance education in Japan, continental Asia, Turkey, and the Balkans. Ten years later, the Dean of the Business School, Wallace B. Donham, approached the trustees of the estate, suggesting that Harvard would be an ideal agent to improve Oriental scholarship. Donham succeeded, and with a $6.35 million endowment from the Hall funds, helped found the Harvard-Yenching Institute in January...