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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. 10 • 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."