The Golden Passport

by Duff McDonald

  18http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1967/faculty_approves_andrews_report_outlining_growth_priorities_of_the_school.html.

  19http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1970/richard_rosenbloom_begins_intensive_review_of_hbs_doctoral_programs.html.

  20Lawrence Fouraker, letter to the president of Harvard, 1973–74. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 360.

  21John McArthur, letter to the president of Harvard, 1979–80. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 304.

  22“Ex-Dean of Business School Dies in Hyannis at Age 83,” Harvard Crimson, April 17, 1979, accessed October 7, 2015, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1979/4/17/ex-dean-of-business-school-dies-in/.

  23Robert Aaron Gordon and James Edwin Howell, Higher Education for Business (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), p. 405.

  24Ibid., p. 406.

  25Professor Robin Wensley, Warwick Business School, “Repeating the ‘Delicate Experiment’ at Least One Hundred Times: Are Business Schools and Is Management Research Fit for the 21st Century?” July 3, 2009.

  26James O’Toole and Warren Bennis, “How Business Schools Lost Their Way,” p. Harvard Business Review, May 2005, https://hbr.org/2005/05/how-business-schools-lost-their-way.

  27J.-C. Spender and Rakesh Khurana, “Intellectual Signatures,” in Disrupt or Be Disrupted: A Blueprint for Change in Management Education (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013), p. 133.

  28Conversation with author, May 2015.

  29Augier and March, The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change, p. 156.

  30Ibid.

  31Conversation with author, October 2015.

  32http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/2004/hansjoerg_wyss_mba_65_makes_25_million_gift_in_support_of.html.

  Chapter 26: Spreading the Gospel

  1http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1930/heads_of_13_business_schools_in_europe_and_asia_visit_and.html.

  2http://www.hbs.edu/global/timeline.html.

  3Ibid.

  4http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015–04–09/harvard-s-case-study-monopoly.

  5Martin Walker, The Cold War: A History (New York: Holt, 1995), p. 51.

  6http://marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2014/06/III-Analyzing-the-Marshall-Plan.pdf.

  7Ibid.

  8Jacqueline McGlade, “The Big Push: The Export of American Business Education to Western Europe After the Second World War,” in Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni, eds., Management Education in Historical Perspective (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 50–65.

  9Ibid., p. 53.

  10Ibid.

  11John Trumpbour, How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire (Boston: South End Press, 1999), p. 70.

  12Ibid., p. 69.

  13John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (New York: Modern Library, 2005), 171.

  14http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1955/office_of_overseas_relations_is_established.html.

  15Naomi Verbong, “Ford Foundation,” http://www.transatlanticperspectives.org/, October 13, 2015, http://www.transatlanticperspectives.org/entry.php?rec=130.

  16http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1954/hbs_enters_into_its_first_formal_overseas_relationship.html.

  17http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/obituaries/e-robert-livernash-is-dead-harvard-business-professor.html.

  18Robert Locke, “Postwar Management Education Reconsidered,” in Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni, eds., Management Education in Historical Perspective (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1998), p. 149.

  19Ibid.

  20Ibid.

  21http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20150310192245385.

  22Locke, “Postwar Management Education Reconsidered,” p. 155.

  23Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School 1908–1945 (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 1987), p. 151.

  Chapter 27: Gentlemen (and A Few Ladies)

  1http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00051, http://www.historyswomen.com/1stWomen/HenriettaLarson.html.

  2Boris Groysberg, Kerry Herman, and Annelena Lob, “Women MBA’s at Harvard Business School: 1962–2012,” Harvard Business School Case Study, March 12, 2013, p. 3.

  3Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School 1908–1945 (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 1987), p. 141.

  4Ibid.

  5Ragnhild J. Roberts, “A Short History of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1937–1963,” Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records, p. 2.

  6https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/history/timeline.

  7http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_events/symposia/history_women_timeline.html.

  8Roberts, “A Short History of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration,” p. 4.

  9Dean Stanley F. Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1955–56, Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 465.

  10Ibid., pp. 465–66.

  11Dean Stanley F. Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1956–57. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 405.

  12Ibid., p. 406.

  13Dean Stanley F. Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1957–58. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 381.

  14Dean George P. Baker, letter to the president of Harvard, 1961–62. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 446.

  15http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wbe/exhibit_mba-program.html.

  16Dean George P. Baker, letter to the president of Harvard, 1963–64. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 250.

  17https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/alumni/communities/gsb-women/history.

  18Paul M. Barrett, “Wendt Divorce Dissects Job of ‘Corporate Wife,’” Wall Street Journal, December 6, 1996.

  19Dean George P. Baker, letter to the president of Harvard, 1967–68. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 307.

  20Groysberg, Herman, and Lob, “Women MBA’s at Harvard Business School: 1962–2012,” p. 7.

  21Ibid., p. 8.

  22Ibid., p. 9.

  23Ibid., p. 13.

  24Joann Muller, “Crimson-Faced; Harassment Case Forcing Harvard Business to Rethink Its Values, Teaching Method,” Boston Globe, April 22, 1998.

  25Groysberg, Herman, and Lob, “Women MBA’s at Harvard Business School: 1962–2012,” p. 16.

  Chapter 28: The Legitimizer: Alfred Chandler

  1http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1928/journal_of_business_and_economic_history_is_launched.html.

  2Alfred D. Chandler Jr., “History and Management Practice and Thought: An Autobiography,” Journal of Management History 15, no. 3 (June 26, 2009): 236–60.

  3Thomas K. McCraw, “The Challenge of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.: Retrospect and Prospect,” Reviews in American History 15, no. 1 (March 1, 1987): 160–78.

  4Ibid.

  5Chandler, “History and Management Practice and Thought,” p. 236.

  6Thomas K. McCraw, “Teaching History Courses to Harvard MBA Students: Building Enrollment from 21 to 1,300,” Business and Economic History 28, no. 2 (December 1, 1999): 153–62.

  7Ibid.

  8Maryann Keller, interview by author, 2009.

  9Susan Aaronson, “Dinosaurs in the Global Economy?,” in Rolv Petter Amdam, ed., Management, Education and Competitiveness (London, England: Routledge, 1996) p. 215.

  10Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, The Oxford Handbook of Business History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

  11Conversation with author, September 2014.

  12https://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-tedlow/88/3a/509.

  13Louis Galambos, “What Makes Us Think We Can Put Bus
iness Back into American History?,” Business and Economic History 21 (1992): 1–11.

  14Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History (Oxford and, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 497.

  15Thomas Frank, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (New York: Doubleday, 2000), p. 186.

  16Chandler, “History and Management Practice and Thought.”

  17Conversation with author, September 2014.

  18Freedman, Strategy, p. 496.

  19Robert F. Freeland, “The Myth of the M-Form? Governance, Consent, and Organizational Change,” American Journal of Sociology 102, no. 2 (September 1, 1996): 483–526.

  20Walter Kiechel, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2010), p. 25.

  Chapter 29: A Decade in Review: 1950–1959

  1Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1957–58. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 384.

  2Donald David, letter to the president of Harvard, 1951–52. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 598.

  3Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1959–60. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 460.

  4Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1959–60. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 463.

  5Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1955–56. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 447.

  Chapter 30: Peak Influence

  1Alfred Chandler, Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969), p. 13.

  2Chester I. Barnard, The Functions of the Executive, 30th anniversary ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 51.

  3H. Igor Ansoff, Corporate Strategy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965).

  4Walter Kiechel, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2010), p. 25.

  5Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 499.

  6http://www.harbus.org/2005/kenneth-r-andrews-hbs-3270/.

  7Freedman, Strategy, p. 499.

  8Ibid.

  9Ibid.

  10Conversation with author, May 2015.

  11Conversation with author, May 2015.

  12Carl Roland Christensen, Business Policy: Text and Cases (Homewood, IL: R. D. Irwin, 1982), pp. ix–x.

  13Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, and Bruce Ahlstrand, Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management (New York: Free Press, 2005), p. 37.

  14“What Business Are We Really In? The Question Revisited,” MCI Communications Corporation Records, November 2, 1986, http://cdm16038.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p268001coll28/id/7281/rec/26.

  15https://hbr.org/2004/07/marketing-myopia/ar/1?referral=00060.

  16David W. Ewing, Inside the Harvard Business School (New York: Crown, 1990), p. 124.

  17Ibid., p. 132.

  18http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/business/06levitt.html?_r=0.

  19Mintzberg, Lampel, and Ahlstrand, Strategy Safari, p. 40.

  20http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3542.html.

  Chapter 31: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  1John A. Byrne, The Whiz Kids: The Founding Fathers of American Business-and the Legacy They Left Us (New York: Doubleday Business, 1993), p. 48.

  2Ibid., p. 13.

  3Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 501.

  4Byrne, The Whiz Kids, p. 51.

  5Ibid., p. 79.

  6Ibid., p. 104.

  7Ibid., p. 171.

  8Ibid., p. 213.

  9Ibid., p. 362.

  10Stephen A. Zeff, “The Contribution of the Harvard Business School to Management Control, 1908–1980,” Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 20, Special Issue, 2008, p. 179.

  11Byrne, The Whiz Kids, p. 364.

  12Ibid., p. 128.

  13Ibid., p. 516.

  14Ibid., p. 229.

  15John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), p. 271.

  16Byrne, The Whiz Kids, p. 248.

  17Matthew Stewart, The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong (New York: Norton, 2009), p. 155.

  18David Callahan, Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School’s Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How They Transformed American Business (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2002), p. 100.

  19Byrne, The Whiz Kids, p. 394.

  20Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History, 2nd ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 1997), p. 361.

  21Ibid., p. 271.

  22Colin Powell and Joseph E. Persico, My American Journey (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003), p. 103.

  23Nassau W. Senior, “Opening Address of Nassau W. Senior, Esq., as President of Section F (Economic Science and Statistics), at the Meeting of the British Association, at Oxford, 28th June, 1860,” Journal of the Statistical Society of London 23, no. 3 (1860).

  24Byrne, The Whiz Kids, p. 517.

  25Freedman, Strategy, p. 502.

  26Byrne, The Whiz Kids, p. 456.

  27Christopher D. McKenna, The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 131.

  28Peter Cohen, The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1974), p. 31.

  29Robert N. Bellah, “The True Scholar,” Academe 86, no. 1 (January/February 2000): 18.

  Chapter 32: The Case Against The Case Method

  1http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/Pages/the-hbs-case-method.aspx.

  2Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School 1908–1945 (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 1987), p. 140.

  3http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015–04–09/harvard-s-case-study-monopoly.

  4Dean Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1959–60. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 458.

  5Dean Wallace Donham, letter to the president of Harvard, 1938–39. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 269.

  6Rakesh Khurana, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 335.

  7David W. Ewing, Inside the Harvard Business School (New York: Crown, 1990), p. 184.

  8Ianna Contardo and Robin Wensley, “The Harvard Business School Story: Avoiding Knowledge by Being Relevant,” Organization 11, no. 2 (May 1, 2004): 211–31.

  9Interview with author, June 2014.

  10Dean Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1960–61. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 376.

  11Laurence Shames, The Big Time: Harvard Business School’s Most Successful Class—and How It Shaped America (New York: HarperCollins, 1986), p. 107.

  Chapter 33: A Decade in Review: 1960–1969

  1Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), p. 33.

  2Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2005), p. 83.

  3George P. Baker, letter to the president of Harvard, 1961–62. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 435.

  4Stanley Teele, letter to the president of Harvard, 1960–61. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 363.

  5Ibid, p. 372.

  6George P. Baker, letter to the president of Harvard, 1968–69. Report of the President of Harvard College and r
eports of departments, p. 289.

  Chapter 34: The Myth of the Well-Educated Manager

  1J. Sterling Livingston, “Myth of the Well-Educated Manager,” Harvard Business Review, January 1971, accessed June 12, 2015, https://hbr.org/1971/01/myth-of-the-well-educated-manager.

  2Peter F. Drucker, Managing for Results (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 5.

  3Richard E. Boyatzis, Scott S. Cowen, and David A. Kolb, Innovation in Professional Education: Steps on a Journey from Teaching to Learning (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994), p. 4.

  Chapter 35: Harvard Business Review: Origins, Heyday, and Scandal

  1Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School 1908–1945 (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 1987), p. 145.

  2Donald David, letter to the president of Harvard, 1945–46. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 393.

  3Donald David, letter to the president of Harvard, 1947–48. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 462.

  4Donald David, letter to the president of Harvard, 1948–49. Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments, p. 504.

  5“New Dean, New Era for Harvard B-school,” BusinessWeek, January 24, 1970, p. 59.

  6http://www.harbus.org/2005/kenneth-r-andrews-hbs-3270/.

  7David W. Ewing, Inside the Harvard Business School (New York: Crown, 1990), p. 213.

  8http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6054.html.

  9John McArthur, letter to the president of Harvard, 1985–86, p. 313.

  10Ewing, Inside the Harvard Business School, p. 216.

  11“Business Process Re-Engineering,” Economist, February 16, 2009, http://www.economist.com/node/13130298.

  12Ibid.

  13http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/21/business/the-media-business-harvard-business-review-cancels-an-article-on-ibm.html.

  14D. C. Denison, “Untarnished Reputation,” Boston Globe, March 19, 2002.

  15Paul Hemp, “Harvard Confirms Harris Out as Editor of Harvard Business Review,” Boston Globe, January 9, 1993.

  16Diane E. Lewis, “Harvard Business Review Names New Publisher,” Boston Globe, February 20, 1997.

  17http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=2490.

  18Elizabeth Mehran, “Editor’s Relationship Raises Ethical Concerns at Harvard,” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2002.

  19http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/5976/.