In 1957, companies in Greater Boston expressed a need for a management development program to meet their unique requirements. These firms recognized that continuing education in management principles was essential for developing managers who could assume additional responsibilities in their organizations. Many of the companies were participating in established advanced management training programs. However, they were also interested in a supplementary, broad-based program that would not take people away from work for long periods, but would expose them to current thinking in management philosophy.

With the advice of Howard W. Johnson of MIT, who was then at the School of Industrial Management, the sponsoring Greater Boston companies set up the first session of the Greater Boston Executive Program in Business Management in the spring of 1958. From the beginning, participating companies have contributed to the success of the program by their selection of managers, vice presidents, assistant treasurers, controllers, and senior research personnel to attend the program.

Faculty from area universities and the MIT Sloan School of Management develop the curriculum and teach the courses. The program combines the benefits of seminar discussions among representatives from Greater Boston companies in a formal advanced management course, and provides a stimulus for continued study.

Participants learn through an exchange of information and the linking of similar management principles in sales, production, engineering, research, finance, personnel, marketing, systems and methods, banking, control, purchasing, and public policy.

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