Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepard has been teaching his men fundamentals, methodically recording the progress of each member of his 21-man squad. "I grade 'em all just like a professor would," drawls the former Davidson College coach. "They've been showing a lot of improvement...
...convinced," the noted business man declared at the time, "that the Harvard Business School is making the most significant contribution of which I know toward the strengthening and perpetuation of...enterprise based on individual initiative...
...each assignment, every student must put himself into the situation and come up with an appropriate decision. There is no right or wrong; it's the business thinking that counts, for after two years of this intensive diet, making executive decisions should become second nature to a Business School man...
...corporation programs usually emphasize better preparation for a man's first job. After all, Business School education, intensive as it may be, is developing the "able business administrator," not the salesman or assistant buyer. But while the corporation training programs can and do give non-Business School graduates a bit of a boost at the start, Harvard education can pay off at promotion time. Surveys have shown that the Business School man, even without the training in routines, isn't at all slow in adjusting himself to his first job, thanks to his indirect study of business as a whole...
...course this Business School education logic sometimes goes astray, because teaching a young man to be an executive before his time can occasionally lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middle-bury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...