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...Dean, Donham developed the "case method" of teaching business administration by the study of actual experiences from day-to-day business life. He was also a leader in the scientific study of human relations, and after World War II helped to introduce human relations courses in Harvard College...
Wallace Brett Donham '99, Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1919 to 1942, died last night at his home in Cambridge...
Before becoming dean of the Business School, Donham had served as Vice-President of the Old Colony Trust Company from 1906 until 1919. He expressed his business philosophy in two books, "Business Adrift" in 1931 and "Business Looks at the Unforeseen...
Baker scholarships were started in 1939 on the suggestion of Dean Donham to fill a "distinct need for some type of honorary scholarship." The Scholars compose the top five percent of their class--the first 21/2 percent of the class are selected at the end of the first year, the second 21/2 percent at the end of the third term. Fifteen men were picked last June...
Addressing an overflow audience at the last of this fall's Leatherbee Lectures, Donham declared that business education must teach them to "relate themselves and their interests to those of the rest of the community." He decried business education which educated solely "for making money...