Robert N. Anthony papers, 1941-2002.

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Robert N. Anthony papers, 1941-2002.

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Robert N. Anthony's papers document his work as a professor of accounting at HBS. Among the research topics in his papers are data processing, cost accounting, management planning, management control, accounting for non-profits organizations, and other general accounting issues. The collection includes research and drafts for publications such as, The Corn Wet-Milling Industry: A Study in inter-Industry Competition, Spending for Industrial Research, Accounting for the Cost of Interest, The Effective Director, Management Planning and Control, Planning and Control Systems, Teach Yourself Essentials of Accounting, and Tell It Like It Was. The collection also includes records of his work for the American Accounting Association and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in addition to printed materials from the U.S. Defense Department. Course materials and correspondence are also included in the collection. The collection does not include material documenting Anthony's tenure as the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.

41.28 linear feet (1 v., 93 boxes, and 2 cartons)

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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American Accounting Association.

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National Military Establishment (U.S.)

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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 ...

Financial Accounting Standards Board.

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Anthony, Robert N. (Robert Newton), 1916-2006

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Robert N. Anthony received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1940 and joined the faculty the same year working with his former professor, Ross Graham Walker. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1941-1946 and rejoined HBS following World War II. He earned a Doctorate of Commercial Science from HBS in 1952 and in July 1956, became a full professor. In 1957 he taught at IMEDE. In 1983 he was appointed the first Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Control. From the description o...