Tepper School of Business Records
Scope and Content Note
Series have been designated for annual reports, administrative records, brochures, Benjamin F. Fairless lectures, books, Cyert papers, publications, research papers, and videos. These records include annual reports, correspondence, pamphlets and brochures, staff and student directories, school publications, research articles, theses, course materials, and VHS and Betacam tapes. Most series cover an extensive period of the School's history to a varying degree of detail. For example, the annual reports or publications series provide a broad overview of the program at any year, whereas the Cyert Papers provide a more in-depth view of the workings of the school throughout the 1960s. The collection presents a reasonably complete representation of the GSIA -- its faculty, students, courses, programs, research, and administration.
Dates
- 1947-2013
Restrictions
None
Historical Sketch
The Graduate School of Industrial Administration was founded in 1949 with a $5 million endowment grant from William Larimer Mellon. Its purpose was to build on the technical skills of individuals in management positions by providing the communication and analytical decision-making skills the they needed to be successful in business. In this way, the GSIA was the first school in the county to adopt the particular approach of training scientists and engineers for executive positions using interdisciplinary courses in managerial economics, communication, behavioral science, quantitative research methods, and mathematics.
On March 19, 2004 the Graduate School of Industrial Administration was changed to the David A. Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon.
Extent
15.5 Linear feet (16 boxes)
Language
English
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Tepper School of Business (formerly called the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, or GSIA) whose purpose was to build on the technical skills of individuals in management positions by providing the communication and analytical decision-making skills the they needed to be successful in business. Included in the collection are theses, annual reports, administrative records, publications, brochures and videos.
Provenance
These materials were received in three main accessions from the GSIA (1982,1989, 2012).
Physical Description
16 Boxes (1 to 10, 10B, 11 to 15)
Processor
Originally processed by Cassandra Pyle; updated by Laure Bukh on November 12, 2013.
- Academic-industrial collaboration
- Business education--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Business schools.
- Cooper, William W. (William Wager), 1914-2012
- Cyert, Richard Michael, 1921-1998
- Economics.
- Executives--Training of.
- Industrial management--Mathematical models.
- Management games.
- Management--Research.
- Operations research.
- Universities and colleges--Graduate work
- Title
- Tepper School of Business Records 1982.01
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- July 5, 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Carnegie Mellon University Archives Repository