Ross G. Walker papers, 1935-1966.

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Ross G. Walker papers, 1935-1966.

This collection includes teaching, research and consulting records of Ross Graham Walker. Correspondents include the American Can Company, Ford Motor Company, General Mills, the Monsanto Chemical Company, the National Association of Cost Accountants, the American Accounting Association, and the American Management Association among other companies and associations. Teaching records relate to classes taught at HBS, including Accounting and Control, and Advanced Management Program classes. Notes on cases and class notes as well as cases and case solutions are also included. The collection also includes material that documents Ross Graham Walker's consulting work with companies including Dennison Manufacturing Company and the Standard Oil Company.

5.5 linear feet (11 boxes)

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Standard Oil Company

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The Standard Oil Company was established by John D. Rockefeller in 1868 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first Standard Oil Company in Minnesota was established in 1886....

American Can Company

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Harvard university. Graduate school of business administration

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The faculty of the Harvard Business School was formally organized in 1913. For the school's first two years (1908-1910) the teaching staff was organized informally. From 1910 to 1913 the teaching and administrative staff was organized as an Administrative Board. From the description of Faculty minutes, 1908- [microform]. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269607747 ...

General Mills, inc.

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Minneapolis, MN. From the description of Pamphlet and handbill, ca.1930. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122364952 In 1893 the Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis opened a Buffalo office from which to distribute its flour throughout the East. A Buffalo flour mill followed in 1904, and in 1928 General Mills was organized with Washburn-Crosby as its nucleus. Washburn-Crosby was dissolved in 1937. General Mills Buffalo operations include a cereal...

National Association of Cost Accountants (U.S.)

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Dennison Manufacturing Company

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Monsanto Chemical Company

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Walker, Ross Graham.

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Ross Graham Walker received his BA from the University of Michigan in 1920 and his MA from Harvard University in 1938. He taught economics at the University of Michigan from 1920-1922 and the University of Iowa from 1922-1926. He joined the faculty at Harvard Business School in 1926. In 1931 he left HBS to become treasurer of the Hamilton Woolen Company. He returned in 1936 as Professor of Business Administration. From the description of Ross G. Walker papers, 1935-1966. (Harvard Bus...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...