Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, the fact remains that most company "ivory-hunters" consider a Harvard Business School man a better prospect than a graduate of any of the nation's 139 undergraduate business schools or five other graduate business schools (Stanford, Chicago, New York University, Dartmouth, and Columbia...
When reasoning why the Harvard man is such a prize catch, there is one important factor that the merits of the School's case system should not overshadow: the Business School's student is a remarkably able man even before he begins his two years across the Charles...
Working under the understandable theory that its program produces best results only in the "Well equipped" man, the Business School is extremely particular in-choosing its students. There are three applicants for every available place, and thus the Admissions Office has a wide enough selection to pick the men it considers the potential business leaders of the future...
There aren't any formal standards that help the Admissions Office spot the "well equipped" man. Instead, the School prefers to survey a man's entire past performance, looking especially to see how he has chosen to spend his time, how well he has executed whatever he has chosen, and how much good these activities have done him. All these factors, the School feels, are clues to the bigger problem of how well-suited the man is for a career in business administration. The School is not hunting for grinds with good marks, for the ideal business administrator...
...nation's economic "panic of 1907" made the Corporation promptly decide that anyone except the business man would be too hard to place. So on October, 1908, the Business School alone opened its doors, and 33 students started courses as candidates for the newly-minted degree of Master of Business Administration...