The Pragmatic Imagination : : A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981 / / Steven A. Sass.
A history of the emergence of the most prominent business school in the United States, this volume also constitutes a probing study of the role of authority in the development of American culture. Steven A. Sass traces Joseph Wharton's experiment from its origins in the ironmaster's entrep...
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