Robert E. Stone papers

The Robert E. Stone papers include materials collected and organized by Stone during his tenure as Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) in conjunction with his appointment as the American co-director of the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Istanbul from 1954 to 1959.

The records contain the annual reports written by Stone and submitted to HBS Dean Stanley F. Teele about the Institute's progress, staff meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, course materials, Stone's drafts of and finalized speeches, data collected on Turkey, and case materials. The relationship between the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Istanbul and HBS was fostered by the Ford Foundation in 1953. The Ford Foundation funded a grant to establish a school of business program in Turkey for five years. The goal of the institute was to contribute to Turkey's social, political and economic progress. Part of the grant provided funding for the new institute's Turkish professors to be trained in the case method of teaching in the United States at HBS.

Also included are personal daily line diary entries and notes kep by Stone while he worked at the Office of Price Administration from 1942 to 1944; a Syracuse University course on Army Comptrollership, 1952-1954; and correspondence related to Stone's time investigating personal injury claims for the State Bar of California, 1963-1968. The diary entries kept during World War II give insight into a government employee at work and how the functioning operations of the government. Stone records meetings with colleagues, lunch outings, memos written and received, thoughts on colleagues, and war-time ration struggles.