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The return to academia of the nation's
seasoned executives to discuss and keep
abreast of developments in management
theory has become an established
part of the modern business scene. Having
mastered techniques in their chosen
fields, they welcome the opportunity to
examine the broader and rapidly expanding
field of management sciences
and to prepare for developments that
are bound to come.
Many organizations send their executives
to programs offered by the uni-
SEMINAR FOR
MANAGEMENT
versity graduate schools of business,
programs that are serving as a pattern
for foreign countries eager to establish
their own institutions of professional
business management. Other organizations,
Haskins & Sells among them, are
devising their own programs adapted
to their special needs.
The H&S Management Seminar, conceived
by John S. Schumann and directed
by him from 1965 to 1967, is
the most senior and prestigious of all
the offerings of the Firm's Professional
Education and Development program.
The 1968 Seminar was administered
as were its five predecessors by Colin
Park, partner in charge of the PE&D
program. It was held last July at the
Seaview Country Club in Absecon,
New Jersey, ten miles north of Atlantic
City. It gave 27 H&S and DPH&S partners
from the U. S. and four other
countries a chance to give their undivided
attention for two weeks to
modern management thinking and application
of theory to practice.
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• Each year, John W. Queenan, the
Firm's managing partner, gives close
personal attention to the Seminar. He
appeared at three different times on
the 1968 program.
"There is not just one good management
style," he told his partners at the
opening dinner. "Each manager must
adopt the style that suits him best."
On Sunday, halfway through the
two-week meeting, he returned to introduce
the featured speaker, George
E Burns, with whom he is pictured at
dinner. Mr. Burns, president of the
Smith Corona Marchant Division of our
client SCM Corporation, explained the
application of management principles
to specific situations in his company.
Mr. Queenan conducted the final
session himself, answering any and all
questions put to him concerning Firm
policy and practice. At the final dinner,
he summed up the Firm's hope for the
Seminar: "You may not be able to put
into effect immediately all you have
learned in the past two weeks. However,
over a period of four or five years
the Firm should see some definite results
from your participation in this
program."
