Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Copeland '07 who succeeded Dr. S. O. Martin '04 as director of the Bureau of Business Research last June, is carrying on the work of the bureau on the same lines as his predecessor. The summer's work consisted in collecting statistics from retail grocers in various parts of the country by two field, agents, J. M. Hager in California and C. H. Moore '13 in Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia...
...premises upon which the editorial builds show a lamentable ignorance. The big drawing card of the Business School's course is the practical nature of the work. Men are required to make firsthand researches into the management of all sorts of enterprises. In the case of the retail shoe and grocery businesses they have made over systems; and their suggestions have been widely adopted by practical men. Other businesses now suggest of their own accord that the Business School investigate their methods for their improvement. Actual work in business houses is also required, by the way, in the summer...
...University's School of Business Administration is one of the few which treats business as a profession. It maintains as rigid requirements for admission as the Law School; and insists upon a high standard of work. The success of its researches and recommendations in the retail shoe and grocery industries has demonstrated its practical usefulness and given it a reputation among business men. They are everywhere co-operating, both in affording facilities for research and in giving employment to graduates...
...Bureau of Business Research of the Graduate School of Business Administration has published a pamphlet on "Expenses in Operating Retail Grocery Stores," which has proved a great success. Although more than 4,000 copies have been mailed to grocery retailers, wholesalers, trade associations and accountants, there is still a demand for them, and their value is attested by numerous appreciative letters which have been received...
...standards for this booklet were based on statistics from 250 retail grocers. At present the Bureau is gathering statistics from 500 retail shops as a basis from which to work out more complete standards...