Case method.

Overview:

The Wallace Brett Donham cases and teaching files span 1921 to 1949 and holds lecture notes and cases for first year students at the Harvard Business School.

Scope and Contents: Materials in the collection range in date from 1946 to 1972, but the bulk of the materials were created between 1951 and 1967. The largest component of the collection consists of Professor Glover’s interview notes and other background materials compiled in the course of research on problems of corporations and executive decision making, some of which was used in the preparation of HBS cases. These materials have detailed observations of and comments about companies and the individuals...

Overview:

This collection includes papers of Harvard Business School professor F. Warren McFarlan documenting his research, teaching, and professional activities.

Scope and Contents: The Richard Donham papers consist of reports on the motion picture industry, iron and steel industry and Anaconda Copper Mining Company while Donham was a student at HBS (MBA 1930). Donham worked as a research assistant after graduation. There is correspondence between Donham, and C.C. Withers, President of American Textiles, Inc. regarding the company's reorganization plans and correspondence with American Smelting & Refining Company regarding a case Donham prepared about the...