ABSTRACT
Eastman Kodak seemed to offer stability, professionalism, and an interesting product technology. In 1948 the Kodak Park plant was a huge integrated plant employing about 20,000 people. It had facilities to make the plastic base, coat it with emulsion, slit it up into usable sizes, spool it, and make the spools and cassettes. Bertrand Russ was director of the Industrial Management Institutes, an organization that put on all kinds of extension short courses for Wisconsin company executives. He was the contact with the real world for the students. The school director, a former Italian army colonel, having heard of participative management, tried to get the American faculty involved in running certain aspects of the school. In 1987 or 1988, Ira Horowitz organized a panel for a doctoral consortium to discuss academic success and its parameters. The audience was filled with young men and women who were about to join the academic profession.
