Nothing Succeeds Like Failure : : The Sad History of American Business Schools / / Steven Conn.
Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what�...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of American Education
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Beast That Ate Campus
- 1. The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton: Getting a Business Education in the Nineteenth Century
- 2. Teach the Children . . . What? Business Schools and Their Curricular Confusions
- 3. Dismal Science versus Applied Economics: The Unhappy Relationship between Business Schools and Economics Departments
- 4. It's a White Man's World: Women and African Americans in Business Schools
- 5. Good in a Crisis? How Business Schools Responded to Economic Downturns-or Didn't
- 6. Same as It Ever Was: How Business Schools Helped Create the New Gilded Age
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index