Teele Stresses Broad Business Background In First Job Training

"While there can be no substitute for learning a special job, classroom study of case histories. . . leads to a more rapid absorption of business methods and techniques and to the ability to look beyond the narrow limits of a particular job," maintained Stanley F. Teele, associate dean of the Business School in the first of a series of Job forums at Kirkland House last night.

Speaking at the opening forum sponsored by the Office of Student Placement, Teele stressed the desirability of professional education for business, pointed out that the Harvard Business School emphasized education for general management and administrative positions rather than specialized training for a specialized industry.

Three primary qualities which characterize the capable administrator which the Business School seeks to develop, said Teele, are the ability to handle people, the ability to make decisions, and technical or specialized knowledge.

Although the Business School's records show that no one field of undergraduate concentration is better than another as far as proportion for it is concerned, Teele said that in his opinion a liberal cultural, undergraduate education was the desirable foundation.

As in the first, subsequent forums will give students authoritative job information. Planned for the future forums are task by representatives of other graduate schools as well as by prominent industrial leaders.