Two Approaches to University Management Education

Programs studied included only those sponsored by schools of business administration focusing upon the study of general management and which were of two weeks duration or more if they were live-in programs, or had an equivalent number of sessions conducted over a longer time interval if they were part-time courses.

The Harvard Middle Management Program (eight months), the Stanford University Program in Executive Management (eight months), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Executive Development Program (twelve months) were excluded from the research because of the complexities involved in comparing these three more extensive programs with the rest of the offerings.

University live-in programs included in the research project were: Atlantic (Canada); Banff (Canada); Buffalo; University of California at Los Angeles (Summer Executive Program); Carnegie Institute of Technology; Colorado; Columbia; Cornell; Georgia; Harvard; Hawaii; Houston; Illinois; Indiana; Kansas; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; McGill (Canada); Michigan State; Michigan; North Carolina; Northwestern; Ohio State; Ohio; Oklahoma State; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania State; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Richmond; Southern California; Stanford; Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College; Texas; Utah; Washington University; University of Washington; and Western Ontario (Canada).

This number included all past and present participants of all the programs included in the project up to the time of the study.

McKay Quinn G. , “The Impact of University Executive Development Programs on Participating Executives” (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1960), p. 187.

For a more extensive review of the comparative influence of part-time and live-in programs see Powell Reed M. , The Role and Impact of the Part-Time University Program in Executive Education (Los Angeles: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business, University of California, 1962), p. 78.

In 1945, the University of Chicago instituted a degree-granting, part-time program. In this course, participants spend two evenings a week at school for a period of two years and successful candidates are granted the MBA degree. This particular program with the incentive of the degree has been regarded as quite successful.

The analyses of the reactions of the UCLA executives appearing throughout this report are based upon the responses of 181 participants. They constituted 42 per cent of the total group which had attended the program up to the time of the research.

This and all the subsequent data for live-in program participants referred to in this report came from the live-in questionnaire respondents and have been reported by Kenneth R. Andrews in the article, “Reaction to University Development Programs,” The Harvard Business Review, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Vol. 39, No. 3, May-June 1961, pp. 116–134.

Specific comparisons with the rankings of the part-time respondents have not been made because the manner in which the live-in data were analyzed and presented did not permit such analysis.