ABSTRACT
The years since 1950 have seen a boom in management development within the wider boom in management as a whole. In the mid-1940s, when I first became interested in this subject, I could find only two companies that had given serious thought to the development of managers: Sears, Roebuck in America and Marks & Spencer in England. At that time there were only three university programmes in America for the continuing advanced education of managers: the Sloan Program at MIT, the programmes at New York University for the continuing education of managers and young professionals in banking and finance; the Advanced Management Program at Harvard.
