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• Gifts

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• 1900s
• King, Edward

Also in 1908:

• Harvard Corporation votes to establish HBS to teach business on a graduate level only, with a five-year experimental authorization under the wing of the Department of Economics; each word of the School's name ("Graduate School of Business Administration") is carefully chosen by Harvard President Charles Eliot and Government Professor (and future Harvard President) A. Lawrence Lowell.
• Harvard economist Edwin F. Gay is appointed as the first dean of HBS, and spends the spring and summer planning the new School's curriculum.
• 24 regular and 35 "special" students enroll
• The Rockefellers' General Education Board votes to support HBS financially for five years
• "Confidential" business documents begin to be collected
• "Cooperative lecture courses" created; taught by active managers
• A. W. Preston gives $2,000/year for 5 years for international studies
• Industry "advisory committees" authorized; textile committee created
• Students make site visits to railroads and manufacturing firms
• Three rooms in University Hall are set aside for the HBS dean's use

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