Harvard Business School

The March 1, 1957 issue of the student-run Harbus newspaper ran an in-depth article on the Turkish Institute of Business Management.

"The faculty of the school," Harbus reported, "is composed mostly of Turks who have been trained at Harvard and the teaching employs the case method. The two co-directors are a Turkish professor and an American, HBS Professor Robert E. Stone, who is on leave for the purpose of helping to start the overseas program.

"Mr. Andrew Towl, Director of Case development, who has just returned from a two-month work project in Turkey, reports that the Institute has just graduated its first class of 34 students. They took a 13-week course in Business Administration that is a combination of the Middle Management Program and Advanced Management Program here. The course is designed to fill the need for trained administrative personnel in the increasingly industrialized Asian nation . . .

"Classes are held temporarily in the barroom of a seaside resort hotel, outside Istanbul. The hotel was selected so that there would be facilities for all the students to live together, and thus enable them to take part in study groups. The cases discussed are written in Turkish, and are taken mostly from local business situations. However, a considerable number are translations of cases used at the Business School. Mr. Towl found the instruction to be on a high plane, and the class discussion was spirited and incisive. . . "