James J. Hill's Philosophy of Railroad Management

1941 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
William J. Cunningham

In May, 1914, a small group of friends of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and admirers of James J. Hill took the initiative in founding a Professorship of Transportation in his honor and to bear his name. The group consisted of Robert Bacon. George F. Baker, Howard Elliott, Arthur Curtis James, Thomas W. Lamont, Robert T. Lincoln, and J. P. Morgan. Seventy-four persons contributed an aggregate of $125,000, and the endowment of the professorship was announced by President Lowell at the 1915 Commencement exercises with the statement that “the Chair marks an epoch in the life of the School, and by its recognition of transportation as a permanent object of systematic instruction, in the life of the nation also.”

1927 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-2

After something more than a year of existence, The Business Historical Society is practically established in its new quarters at the Baker Library, one of the fine group of buildings for the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, made possible by the gift of Mr. George F. Baker, whose name the library bears.


1943 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 97-101

This month the members of the Business Historical Society are receiving The Whitesmiths of Taunton, a History of Reed & Barton, 1824-1943, by George S. Gibb. This is the eighth volume in the Harvard Studies in Business History published at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration under the direction of Professor N. S. B. Gras. It is the first volume in the series to be devoted wholly to the history of a manufacturing concern.


1940 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 87-87

The Business Historical Society has just published a revised edition of the pamphlet, The Preservation of Business Records, by Ralph M. Hower, assistant professor of Business History at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and clerk of the Business Historical Society.


1960 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Lovett

Many manuscript collections contain business materials of one sort or another, but Baker Library, of the Harvard Business School, has the largest single accumulation of such records, acquired by a private institution for purposes of research. These qualifications are necessary, since the records of many large companies, such as U. S. Steel, would greatly outnumber our holdings; and such a public institution as the National Archives contains extensive business materials.


1966 ◽  
Vol 33 (67) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
José Sebastião Witter

BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW. — Published quaterly by The Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Volume XXXIX, number 4. Winter 1965. Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachussets. 


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