This paper gives a brief overview of graduate business education at the two oldest graduate schools of business - Amos Tuck and Harvard. Its purpose is to give an historical overview of the MBA program in U.S. since its inception seventy-five years ago.
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1. Marshall, Leon C., ed., The Collegiate School of Business (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1928) pp. 3-4; and Grigg, Charles M., Graduate Education (New York: The Center for Applied Research in Education, Inc., 1965), p. 2.
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5. For current MBA model program see (1) Wheelen, Thomas L., "Current Typical MBA Program Model,"Atlanta Economic Review, Vol. 19, No. 12 (December, 1969), pp. 33-35.
