This may not be that deep of a thought but think about it.

It has to do with history being a process. Both a process of obtaining the proper info to make your own interpretations, and the process of history itself, meaning that everything that ever happens is included in some sort of system that will one day spit out a "finished product" that may take the shape of an ounce of knowledge, a book, an article, a teaching position, a cool thought while running through the woods, a discussion among friends, etc.

I never thought (you probably never thought either) that one could compare Business, more specifically Operations Management, to the process of History. But think about this...every process has variation. That is what quality control people do in factories. They measure how many chips are in a random sample of bags to make sure that it is somewhere within a standard deviation of the average amount of chips. Same thing with sodas. Every 20 oz. bottle of coke never has exactly 20 oz. in it. It's always a little high (20.02) or a little low (19.98). This variation is only a problem for management when it becomes so great that the quality of the product suffers.
Dr. Benson was our manager, new ideas, study skills, and an efficient brain were the products, and the process that the manager chose to use was history. There was some variation, some deviation away from the standards, but overall, the process did not let us down.

So there, now you can compare Operations Management to History.