Overview
This collection includes teaching files from Joseph Bradley Hubbard’s time as an Assistant Professor of Business Economics (1934-1943) at the Harvard Business School, from the course Business Problem Analysis (called Managerial Reports as of 1942), and from a first-year English course.
Dates
- Creation: 1934-1943
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
.5 linear feet (2 boxes)This collection includes teaching files from Joseph Bradley Hubbard’s time as an Assistant Professor of Business Economics (1934-1943) at the Harvard Business School, from the course Business Problem Analysis (called Managerial Reports as of 1942), and from a first-year English course. Materials include correspondence with other faculty, memoranda, notes on meetings, course schedules and agendas, reports on grade distributions, papers and lecture outlines. One report is from 1930, prior to the collection date range, but the materials were not being used or created by Hubbard until 1934.
Biographical / Historical
Joseph Bradley Hubbard received his A.B. (1912) and A.M. (1913) from the University of Wisconsin, and his Ph.D. in Political Economy from Harvard University (1923). He was an Instructor in Economics at Hamline University (1913-1915), at University of Minnesota (1914-1915), and at Princeton University (1919-1920). Hubbard was a Special Expert for the United States Tariff Commission (1918-1921) and the Assistant Editor and Editor of Weekly Letters, of the Harvard University Committee on Economic Research and Harvard Economic Society (1921-1931). Hubbard was also the Editor of The Review of Economic Statistics (1931-1935), and the Managing Editor of the Harvard Business Review from 1935 into the 1940s. He was an Assistant Professor of Business Economics at Harvard Business School (1934-1943). Hubbard resigned from the Business School in June, 1943 to take a position as Economist in the Development Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in New Jersey, where he conducted research on postwar product development.
Physical Location
ARCFA
Processing Information
The restriction period for this material has ended. The materials were opened for research in 2023.
- Title
- Hubbard, Joseph Bradley. Joseph Bradley Hubbard Papers, 1934-1943: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Baker Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- bak00799
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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