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* Three executives, "students" at AMA's new Academy of Advanced Management at Saranac Lake, Ν. Υ., stand in front of Mellon Library, one of 50 buildings on the academy's 90-acre site. The facility was formally opened Sept. 30
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Scenic $2 million A c a d e m y of Advanced M a n a g e ment opens at Saranac Lake in northern N e w York JLKE SENDS HIS GREETINGS; New
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Gov. Harriman adds a personal note. The scene is the American Manage ment Association's new Academy of Advanced Management, opened last week at the height of Indian summer in the Adirondacks. Location: Saranac Lake, on grounds where the Trudeau Sanatorium for Lung Diseases used to stand. The formal opening heralded the new professional status attained for management. Don G. Mitchell, Sylvania's president and board chairman, sees the coming decade as the era of the professional manager. Mitchell, who is also AMA's board chairman, feels that t o p management will soon consider formal graduate management training—either at one of the several notable graduate schools of business administration or at the academy—as a prime requisite to reach and hold toplevel positions. More than 1000 executives have registered for the academy's first two
activities, the management course and the executive decision-making program pilot-tested at AMA's New York City headquarters last May (C&EN, May 13, page 4 0 ) . Almost 100 of them were on hand as charter course partici pants when the training facility opened its doors. Renovation of 21 buildings on the 90-acre site has been completed, with further remodeling to come. The fa cility, valued at $2 million, is officially dedicated to "enlightened management philosophy and improved management practices as a service to humanity." Mitchell notes that the need for such training courses will increase rather than go down if a slight business re cession occurs. He sees emphasis in the next decade on speed in decision making, made both necessary and pos sible by advances in electronic data processing. ΑΜΑ will continue to expand its program in New York City, at Saranac Lake, and at Colgate University.
