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Wallace Brett Donham Quotes

d. 1954 United States

Wallace Brett Donham (1877 – November 29, 1954) was an American organizational theorist, Professor of Business Administration and the second dean of the Harvard Business School from 1919-1942. The use of case studies in HBS education was greatly expanded during Donham's time as dean.

United States
Academics
Business theorists
Economists

Also known as: Wallace B. Donham, Wallace Donham

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Everything ahead of us is dangerous. There isn’t a power the President has asked for that isn’t dangerous. But there isn’t a power or a combination of powers he has asked for so dangerous as continuing to do nothing.

The inability of business and political leadership to rise to new heights [required by the] unprecedented situation, [familiar to us now as the Great Depression.. urged for] bold policies...bold anything is needed at this time.

All these associates were willing to help me in expanding my habit of trying to look all around things before interpreting them, as it seemed to me that the administrator should, instead of limiting his range of thought to some specialized point of view.

Wallace Brett Donham (1952)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Brett Donham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.