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GSB faculty have shaped the course of global business education over the decades
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Dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of Stanford University. DetailsStanford Knowledgebase - Center for Oral History Research, UCLA
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Oral History Program
Welcome to the Oral History Program of the Graduate School of Business
The program is dedicated to the preservation of the collective memory
of the School through recorded interviews of faculty, staff and alumni.
Spotlight
Step back into the past and listen to GSB Dean Ernest Arbuckle and Professors Theodore Kreps and Alexander Bavelas discuss the role of business education at a 1959 symposium.
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Obituary Professor Harold J. Leavitt 1922-2007, founding father of the academic field of organizational behavior.
Obituary Professor Robert T. Sprouse 1922-2007, whose work had great impact on the conceptual framework of accounting's FASB.
Background
The program was inspired by the realization that it has been more than 80 years since the Graduate School of Business was born, the brainchild of Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover, and that memories of the earlier years of the School are rapidly receding. This suggests a need to capture those institutional memories permanently, if there is ever to be a formal history of the School. It is intended that material generated by the program will provide a rich resource for future educators and historians.
Advisory Board
Our distinguished Oral History Advisory Board includes former GSB Dean Arjay Miller and emeriti faculty Robert Augsburger, Charles Bonini, Robert Flanagan and James March. The Board advises the program on its general direction and suggests specific candidates to be interviewed.
Progress
The Advisory Board held its first annual meeting on Stanford campus, Tuesday, September 4, 2007. All members were in attendance: Arjay Miller, Robert Augsburger, Charles Bonini, Robert Flanagan and James March, with Paul Reist as Chair. It was agreed that the Program will drive toward two principal foci: (a) capturing the inception of the School's New Curriculum, as it happens, and (b) recording recollections of senior members of the GSB community. The Program will build resources for future research, and gather raw material that can be used to write an eventual history of the Graduate School of Business.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Kathy Long, Karen Wilson, Christina Einstein, Cathy Castillo, Erica Richter, Lynne Reynolds and Roxanne Nilan for their support and enthusiasm in helping to implement this program.
Questions?
Contact Paul Reist, Manager, Oral History Program
