Records, 1913-

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Records, 1913-

Correspondence files of the Bureau of Business Research and the Division of Research, 1913-1970, including letters and papers relating to faculty research; correspondence and papers, 1936-1973, from the editor, project research; office files, 1921-1960, mainly on cost studies; financial records; research notes; working papers, and publications.

ca. 60 cu. ft.

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

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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 resea...

Harvard University. Bureau of Business Research

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McNair, Malcolm P. (Malcolm Perrine), 1894-1985

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Malcolm P. McNair was a Teaching Assistant in Government and English at Harvard University from 1917-1920. In 1920 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School as Instructor, 1920-1924, Assistant Professor of Marketing, 1924-1927, Associate Professor of Marketing, 1927-1931, Professor of Marketing, 1931-1950, and the first Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, 1950-1963. From the description of Malcolm P. McNair papers, ca 1919-1985. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat recor...

Martin, Selden

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Burnham, Elizabeth A.

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Biddle, Clinton P.

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Copeland, Melvin Thomas, 1884-1975

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Melvin Thomas Copeland served as an Instructor in Economics at Harvard from 1909-1910 and at New York University from 1911-1912. He was an instructor at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration from 1912-1918 and Professor of Marketing from 1919-1953. Copeland was Director of the Bureau of Business Research from 1916-1926 and Director of Business Research from 1942-1953. He was the author of the first casebook, Marketing Problems, as well as numerous other publications on ma...

Fox, Bertrand

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Doriot, Georges F. (Georges Frederic), 1899-1987

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U.S. Army officer, artist, financier, and professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (1926-1941, 1946-1966). From the description of Papers, 1917-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605100 Georges F. Doriot was a professor of Manufacturing at Harvard Business School from 1926-1966 (with a break during World War II). He served as Brigadier General from 1941-1947 and was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff in 1946, a positi...