AGSM Handbooks

This collection contains the AGSM handbooks from 1977 - 1998.

In 1969 the Australian Government appointed a committee of overseas experts headed by Dr Richard Cyert to advise on the future needs for graduate management in Australia. On 19 January 1970 Council endorsed the beginning of negotiations for the establishment of a national graduate school of business at the university. When the Cyert Committee submitted the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into postgraduate education for management in March 1970, it advised that UNSW was the university best placed to provide the desirable environment for a national business school of the highest quality.

In August 1973 the Australian Government gave its agreement for the university to begin preliminary planning for the school and the university accepted the government's offer. On 12 November 1973 Council created an interim board of management, who were to be responsible for planning the development of the new school.

On 11 March 1974 the new school was named the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). On 11 November 1974 Professor Philip Brown was appointed as the foundation Professor of Management and Director of the AGSM. He took up the position on 1 January 1975 and the school began its first classes on 7 March 1977.

On 1 June 1998 Council gave its approval to the merger of the AGSM with the University of Sydney's Graduate School of Business to form a new AGSM as a joint venture between the two universities, effective from the first academic term in 1999.

As a result, the AGSM ceased to produce handbooks from the time of the merger.

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