Tuck Means Business
The Tuck School of Business Administration, with Dean Arthur P. Upgren newly at the helm, has been popping with developments in recent months. News announcements from the business school have dealt with a program of communicative business research, a new seminar following the general pattern of the Great Issues course, three other new courses, and five new professorial appointments that are expected to give added excellence to the faculty of the School.
During the summer Tuck School inaugurated a program of communicative business research under Dean Upgren, director, and Marshall Robinson, recently appointed Assistant Professor of Finance and Assistant Director of Research. Several members of the faculty are working on projects, the results to be published in a series of eight bulletins. The purpose of the program is to provide businessmen with an analysis of some of the more important current business problems.
The new seminar, similar in approach to the Great Issues course, has been entitled "The Administrator and Labor Relations." Leaders in the fields of government, business, labor, industry and higher education will come to Hanover to discuss various topics within the management-labor relations field. The talks by the visiting lecturers in the evening will be followed by question-and-answer sessions the following day. This important addition to the School's educational program is made possible through the generosity of Albert Bradley '15, executive vice president of General Motors Corp. and an Overseer of Tuck School. The first guest lecturer in the seminar will be Clinton S. Golden, director of the Trade Union Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and former labor leader, who will discuss "The Background of the Labor Movement in the United States" on October 8-9.
Karl A. Hill '38, Professor of Industrial Management, has been named Assistant Dean, and in addition to this responsibility and teaching he will handle the School's placement work. New faculty members, in addition to Professor Robinson, who came from Tulane University, are Kenneth R. Davis, Assistant Professor of Marketing, from the University of North Carolina; Herbert C. Morton, Assistant Professor and Research Editor, who formerly taught at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and will edit the School's research publications; Robert L. Katz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, who spent last year studying toward the D.C.S. degree at Harvard Business School; and George D. Bodenhorn, Assistant Professor of Statistics, who has completed his work for the Ph.D. degree at the University of California.
Three new courses will add scope to the curriculum: "Administrative Practices" is a two-semester course conducted by Professor Katz and includes a wide variety of actual business cases requiring administrative action. "Business Economics," a firstsemester course designed to serve as a transition from general to more specialized economics, is being taught by Prof. Herluf V. Olsen '22, former Dean, who has returned to Tuck School after leave of absence as director of the Study Commission on Hospital Administration, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. "Report Writing," a two-semester course, is given by Professor Morton, and is planned to help students increase their skill in writing business reports.
