ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the evolution of graduate management education, particularly the MBA, at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the University of Western Ontario (UWO), and Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales de Montreal (HEC). It also discusses the role that specific people and initiatives played in shaping graduate business and management programs is clearer than with undergraduate programs, and the impact of such people. Graduate management education developed in Canada after undergraduate programs were initially offered. The UWO School of Business Administration introduced the MBA degree to Canadian students in 1950 and, as Donald Thain recalled, UWO graduated approximately half of people earning this degree in the country by the early 1960s. Students were also taught that problems were measured and quantified and that problems seeming directly to people were best covered in personnel or human resource management electives. UBC and HEC did have streams in those areas, but areas like finance and marketing held more interest for students.
