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Willard E. (Willard Eugene) Hotchkiss
b. 1874
Known for writing about business education and labor relations, this early 20th-century scholar brought an unusual mix of academic rigor and real-world administrative experience to his work. He also helped shape major university programs at a time when business education was still finding its place.
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Higher Education and Business Standards
by Willard E. (Willard Eugene) Hotchkiss
About the author
Born in Amber, New York, in 1874, Willard Eugene Hotchkiss was an American economist, educator, and author whose writing focused on business standards, labor questions, and public administration. He earned his PhD in economics at Cornell University and went on to teach and lead programs at several universities.
Hotchkiss played an important role in the development of business education in the United States. He taught at Northwestern University, later became the first dean of Stanford's business school from 1925 to 1931, and afterward served as president of the Armour Institute of Technology, one of the institutions that later became the Illinois Institute of Technology.
As an author, he is best known for works such as Higher Education and Business Standards and studies of labor and government practice. Archival records also show his later work as an arbitrator and mediator in industrial disputes, especially in the textile and steel industries, adding a practical dimension to the subjects he wrote about.