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Everybody in the University knows more or less about the Graduate School of Business Administration but few realize the scope of its work or the extent of its research. Dean W. B. Donham became head of the school after having been associated with the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston for 15 years. He installed the now famous "case system" of teaching business administration through the actual study and solving of the problems of working concerns. In its search for suitable problems a subsidiary organization of the Business School was established. This was the Harvard Bureau of Business Research...
...Business School is paying its own way in giving classroom instruction. It has been Dean Donham's contention that the School could be and should be run on the same principles as any well organized busines in so far as the direct cost of instruction is concerned. This accounts for the large operating surplus that the School has shown for the last two years...
...Dean Donham of the Graduate School of Business Administration and Dean Hughes of the Engineering School, each gave a short address, preceding Professor Hart, who was the Principal speaker of the evening...
...addition to the address of Professor Hart brief addresses will be made by Dean Haskins of the Graduate School of Arts and Science and Dean Donham of the Graduate School of Business Administration. The deans of the other schools have also been invited...
Before President Lowell took the floor. Dean Donham '98, explained some of the routine of the school and what is expected of each man. He emphasized the duty of every Harvard College graduate toward-making the new men from other colleges feel at home. He slipped in the remark that "work in the school is looked upon in the same light as a business obligation that an employer expects...