From 1890 to 1891, she studied at the University of Cambridge and then moved to study at Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women in Cambridge (later known as Radcliffe College). For the next six years, Follett attended the university on an irregular basis, eventually graduating summa cum laude in 1898 with emphases in **government, economics, law, and philosophy**. Her Radcliffe thesis, The Speaker of the House of Representatives, was published in 1896. She would go on to apply to Harvard and get accepted.
She also distinguished herself in the field of management by being sought out by US President Theodore Roosevelt as his personal consultant on managing **not-for-profit, nongovernmental, and voluntary organizations**.
After her death, her work and ideas would disappear from American organizational and management circles of the time but continue to gain followership in Great Britain. In the last decades,[when?] her work has been rediscovered. During the 1960s, her ideas would re-emerge in Japan, where management thinkers would apply her theories to business.[16]
Management theorist Warren Bennis said of Follett's work, **"Just about everything written today about leadership and organizations comes from Mary Parker Follett's writings and lectures."**[17]
Her texts outline modern ideas under participatory management: decentralized decisions, **integrating role of groups**, and competition authority. Follett managed to reduce the gap between the mechanistic approach and contemporary approach that emphasizes human behavior.[18]
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