Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Most of the A.M.P.'s have families but they are urged to leave them at home on the grounds that "they are distracting" and because all A.M.P.'s should live together. The Business School places great emphasis on informal discussions tmong them...
...hundred and fifty 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...
...sending a representative to the Business School course something a firm will do on a whim. It's so expensive, in fact, that most of the A.M.P.'s come from "blue chip" firms which can afford to lose an important executive, pay his salary while he's absent (they are invariably over $10,000), and pay his expenses at the Business School, which amount to between $1,500 and $1,800 for the 13-week period. The tuition fee alone is $800, and the executives also have to pay $15, $225275, and $350 for medical fee, room, and food respectively...
...improve themselves" range in age from 30 to 60. Hard business experience and a good record in the company are the main criteria for admission. Of the present class, about two-thirds have taken college degrees but several are "self made men" and a few never went to high school...
Most of these discussions take place in Hamilton Hall, the small dormitory located on the right wing of the main Business School courtyard. Hamilton has a pleasant lounge with huge leather chairs, and subdued lighting which is supposed to make up for the down town clubs the A.M.P.'s were used to attending and as an attraction to keep the business men in Hamilton so they will talk to each other...