I was amazed, when I came in 1953, to find that the Business School was as active—possibly with one exception—outside the United States and other countries. The only other one of our faculties that would seem to me to be as internationally minded at that stage was the School of Public Health.

People from all the Third World countries—we did not call them "Third World" countries then—were coming here desperately to find out what science could teach them that would help them solve their problems on hunger, poverty, and population, etc., and every kind of disease in the world that they had.

The Harvard Business School was very active already on the world stage, and this was a lot of zealots over there at the Business School, if you will, and the case method, that they had some kind of magic formula that was going to make the world healthy, wealthy, prosperous, and all of that. So they went in to see just like the missionaries did in the 19th century, carrying the Christian religion.