Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...prosperous looking students at the Business School packed their bags and left yesterday. This is a legitimate exit, however, because the gentlemen involved are only part-time students. Away from Cambridge they are all high business executives. In Cambridge they are part of the Business School's Advanced Management Program, a concentrated course for experienced business leaders...
Businessmen apparently hold the Advanced Management Program in high esteem because each year, according to the trade journal "Personnel," "vice-presidents, managers, and other executives" scramble for opportunities to attend one of the 13 week courses. Since the program began after the war, more than 1,250 men from over 250 companies have enrolled...
...This program, said an oil company executive last year when he finished his course, "broadens the businessman's outlook, his understanding of business, and above all, it forces a man to think, and think seriously about many phases of business which he does not ordinarly consider...
Occasionally men come to the Advanced Management Program to cure certain personal business problems. In the spring session last year, an executive in a Brazilian branch of an American firm enthusiastically reported that the program had succeeded in teaching him to use the English language skillfully again. He had let his English lapse while using Portuguese for an extended period...
About once a week, the A.M.P.'s pile into cars and snoop around industrial plants in the Greater Boston area as part of the "know the other man's business" part of the program...