Knowledge that Transforms

Discusses the concepts for management and in management education which are in the process of development in the Management Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Industrial Management. Ways in which the community may contribute to, and cooperate with, a school of management; Discussion on the problem of teaching improvement to the student of management; Effort of the Management Laboratory to make its teaching most effective.

Focuses on the businessmen's ideas concerning the subject of control in management. Personal aspects of control; Evaluation of control procedures; Reason for the difficult conceptual problems posed by controlling.

Focuses on the objectives of executive development programs. Length, methods and the content of a variety of the executive development programs; Comparison between the status of executive development programs and the watering places of the early 1900s.

Presents news and notes related to management as of 1958. Promotion of Professor Frank A. DePhillips at the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance; Publication of the book 'Readings in Management,' by Professor Max Richards and William A. Nielander; Program presented at the annual conference of the Management Group of the Southern Economic Association at Atlanta, Georgia on November 21, 1958.

Provides information on a middle management program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Characteristics of participants in middle management program; Knowledge, attitudes and skills possess by men when they come to Harvard.

Presents an experiment which examined the use of a television (TV) case method of instruction to students working towards a Master of Business Administration °. Information on the TV studio used; Description of the panel members involved in the study; Recommendations for those who might be encouraged to experiment further with case instruction via TV.

Focuses on the popularity of executive development programs in universities in the United States. Several universities that have started the programs since 1946; Several companies and business groups that have turned to the universities to organize and teach in live-in programs that are general rather than technical in nature.

Reports on an annual executive development program held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1957 by the Academy of Management. Kinds of management.

Offers information on how to select a case study. Advantages of the case study method of instruction over the conventional approaches; How to attain a solution to the problem of inadequate data; Factors that determined the success of a policy case.

Discusses the significance of organizational theory and formal organization to business success. Statements on the impressions of managers about the significance of organizational theory and formal organization; Dimensions of theory; Principles that composed the framework of organization theory.