History of Business Education

Writer Matthew Stewart responds to Tuck Dean Paul Danos’ page inside month’s Atlantic by saying that “the Tuck School at Dartmouth was undoubtedly founded very first, as Paul Danos states; but Harvard was initially to provide a master’s level operating management.”

It is a petty point, however it’s not clear exactly how Stewart might be proper if he’s talking about the amount in lower-case letters: the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance ended up being created in 1900 and granted its first company master’s degree to Walter Blair and his two classmates in 1901. Harvard would not acknowledge its very first pupils until the autumn of 1908.

No graduate level in the administration of contemporary companies existed in 1900. The Tuck School began by phoning its level the “Master of Science (Tuck School)” but renamed it during 1902 the “Master of Commercial Science, ” a reference on Bachelor of Commerce level that many schools was indeed awarding for years. (Wayne Broehl, Tuck & Tucker (1999), 43-44.)

Harvard’s company college (which may have started by calling its level the M.C.S.) couldn't seem to rename whatever graduate degree it was giving as a “Master of company management” until 1921, and that’s the name that caught in. (Harvard most likely performed more than simply rename its existing degree — it most likely invented a wholly-new curriculum that transformed company knowledge; but Harvard would not open “the first graduate school in the country available a master’s level in business” as Stewart stated inside original article final month.) In 1953, the Tuck class changed title of this degree it absolutely was awarding since 1901 into the mainstream M.B.A.