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...these things, from the case method to the two-platoon system, have gone toward making today's Business School a far cry from 1908, the year of the opening...
...business at Harvard originated at the turn of the century when the University started taking sharp notice of the rapid expansion of business in the country. First came an experimental course in accounting, and then, in 1907, President Eliot announced the Corporation had voted to set up a School for Public Service and Commerce...
...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...
Under its first dean, Edwin F. Gay, the fledging School heard lectures by outside business men and grew from a 33-man class in 1910 to a 156-man class in 1917. But the first world war dispersed both faculty and students, and in 1919 only 68 men were around to receive their M.B.A...
That year Gay resigned to take on the presidency of the New York Evening Post, and Wallace B. Donham left his Old Colony Trust Company vice-presidency to become the Business School's second dean. In his first report Donham hailed his predecessor's ten years of work in launching the School but lashed...