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President Conant called it an "endorsement of a great educational enterprise," and Dean Donald K. David termed it an "expression of confidence" when John D. Rockefeller, Jr. last June presented the School of Business Administration with a $5,000,000 pledge and, along with it, one of the best testimonials the School has ever received...
...School today to show real evidence for its reputation. Under terms of the donation, the $5,000,000 must on July 1, 1950 be matched by an equal amount in gifts or pledges toward the School's $20,000,000 expansion program. "It's a real test for us," one official put it recently. "We feel we've got something that helps American business, and now in our drive for funds we'll see if business really thinks we're worth while...
...Harvard's view of business education is the notion that "one must learn to do by doing." Years ago in 1908, when the School first opened, its leaders decided to minimize the study of facts, rules, and routines, and that's the way things have stayed ever since. Meanwhile, what started as a modest, small-scale "problem method of instruction" has evolved through the years into the School's famous "case system...
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...
...this security at admissions time leads to a school with few failures throughout the two-year course. This doesn't mean that the life of a Business School student can be an easy one; on the contrary, the School expects the average student to devote 60 hours per week to his work, inclusive of classroom time...