Harvard university. Graduate school of business administration. Division of research

The Harvard Bureau of Business Research was established in 1911 as the first organized effort to do research in business administration. Besides publishing its statistical studies on retail operating costs, from 1921 to 1926 the Bureau administered the Harvard Business School case collection. The Bureau continued its statistical operations until sometime after World War II. In 1930, the Division of Research was established to coordinate case collection, and eventually to administer project research.