Assistant professor Charles D. Orth III has been named assistant dean for alumni programs at the Harvard Business School.

In announcing the appointment, Dean George P. Baker pointed out that the creation of this new position is part of the Business School's program to provide the most effective educational services to its 25,000 alumni.

Dean Orth will direct programs in post-graduate education, and he will be responsible for all alumni relations of the Business School under the direction of Associate Dean Myles Mace.

Orth is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, and has been a member of its faculty since 1952. Besides articles in the Harvard Business Review, he is one of the authors of Organizational Behavior and Administration, published in 1961, and the co-author with professor Ralph Hower, of Managers and Scientists which will be published in January by the Division of Research at the Business School. Later in 1963, the Business School will publish his latest study, Social Structure and Learning Climate.