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What Has the Business Administrator Contributed to Society ?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Constance McLaughlin Green
Affiliation:
Smith College

Extract

My approach to this question is based upon a conviction that every socially useful human being must be aware of his debt to generations past and present and therefore he must be filled with a constant sense of his obligation. To cast the business administrator then in the role of benefactor, when, from my point of view, to him more than to the member of any other one class of human society should be assigned the place of the beneficiary, is to put the emphasis upon the wrong thing. Obviously it is true that, in so far as the business administrator is part of the whole body of human society, he may be said to be part of the total creditor group as well as of the debtor. The problem becomes, then, one of relatives. Has he taken more than he has given ? I believe he has—not in every individual instance at all times, but as a general rule.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1943

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