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Former Dean of the Business School Wallace B. Donham '98 will present the first of six Leatherbee Lectures at 4 p.m. today in Room 100 of the Baker Library. His topic will be "Blind Spots," a survey of Administration policies...
...waiting for the completion of the buildings, Dean Donham had meanwhile been working on the second goal, that of "expanding laboratory facilities." By 1927, the grounds were dedicated, eight intensive years of visiting business plants had blossomed into almost 6,000 case studies. School researchers since then have kept the case stocks "active...
During this period of the 'twenties and 'thirties, meanwhile, Dean Donham was putting into play many of the ideas that observers today credit with establishing business as a true "profession" rather than a mere set of specialized skills. Donham advanced the notion of business education as a broad "education for leadership," and under him, Harvard took steps to integrate and balance the program taken by every student...
...start of World War II, degrees awarded (starting with the 33 given out in 1910) had reached the total of 7,757. Donham remained the dean until 1942, when, at the advise of his physician, he turned the position over to Dean David, then the president of American Maize...
After the war, the school curriculum was again reshaped; simultaneously the topics of Dean David's annual reports began to indicate that the "Donham doctrine" of education for leadership had posed several unanswered questions basic to the school...